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1911 


MANUAL  OF 
JUVENILE  LAWS 


ISSUED  BY 

JUVENILE   PROTECTIVE   ASSOCIATION 
OF  CHICAGO 


PRICE  25  CENTS 
1911 


Manual  of  Juvenile  Laws 


JUVENILE  PROTECTIVE  ASSOCIATION 
OF  CHICAGO 


\ 

Compiled  and  Revised  by 

HARRY  E.  SMOOT.  Attorney 

1911 


JUVENILE 


Copyrighted,  1911, 

by 

PROTECTIVE    ASSOCIATION 
of  Chicago 


NOTE. 

This  book  is  intended  to  aid  all  social  workers, 
either  in  the  field  or  in  court.  The  text  in  most 
instances  is  a  condensed  statement  of  the  law.  The 
marginal  references  indicate  where  the  law  in  full 
may  be  found.  Persons  who  use  this  manual 
should  consult  the  full  text  cited  whenever  there 
is  any  doubt  as  to  the  application  or  construction 
of  the  law  in  question. 

Many  additions  to  and  changes  from  the  first 
manual  have  been  made  in  this  revision. 

An  arrangement  which  seemed  best  adapted  to 
the  needs  of  all  social  workers,  whether  in  Chi- 
cago or  elsewhere  in  the  state,  has  been  used. 

It  is  believed  that  workers  outside  of  Chicago 
will  find  the  manual  of  great  assistance  to  them. 


SOCIAL  AGENCIES  FOR  CHILD  WELFARE 


CHARITABLE   AGENCIES. 

Address.  Telephone. 

Associated  Jewish  Charities  of  Chicago,  30  N.  La  Salle  St. Main  1336 

Children's  Day  Association,  188  Madison  St Main  992 

Miss  Sarah  Reiwitch,   secretary.     (Pays  children's  board 
temporarily.) 

County  Agent,  main  office,  213  Feoria  St Monroe  2608 

Branches — 

837   W.    47th    St Yards    2010 

1054  N.  Ashland  Ave Monroe   5775 

6330  Madison  Ave Hyde  Park  4482 

Jewish  Aid  Society  of  Chicago,  1245  Waller  St Canal  15 

United  Charities  of  Chicago,   167  N.  La  Salle  St Frank.  1234 

Central  District,  2729  Michigan  Ave Calumet  1006 

West  Side  District,  940  W.  Madison  St Frank.  1234 

Northwestern  District,  1551  Milwaukee  Ave Humb.  1320 

Northern  District,  2537  Sheffield  Ave Lincoln  1886 

Stock  Yards  District,  723  W.  47th  St Yards  24 

Englewood  District,   226  W.   63d  St Went.   942 

South  Chicago  District,  9103  Commercial  Ave So.  Chgo.  845 

Southwestern  District,  2123  S.  Ashland  Ave Canal  211 

Lower  North  District,  1116  Wells  St Frank.  1234 

DAY    NURSERIES. 

Bethlehem,  214  W.  52d  St Yards  3033 

Eli  Bates,  621  W.  Elm  St North  3608 

Fullerton  Ave.  (Christopher  House),  1528  Fullerton  Ave 

Institutional  Church    (Colored),   3825  Dearborn  St 

Little  Wanderer,  646  N.  Oakley  Ave 

Mary  Crane,  818  Ewing  St Frank.  1234 

Matheon   (Chicago  Commons),   955  Grand  Ave Monroe  1030 

Providence  Kindergarten,   3052   Sullivan  Ct 

St.  Marv's  (Catholic),  656  W.  44th  St Yards  1529 

St.  Mary's  (Catholic),  850  Washington  Blvd Monroe  3577 

South  End  Center,  3212  E.  91st  St So.  Chgo.  599 

The  Helen,  177  W.  12th  St 

Workers,  3009  Butler  St 

Margaret  Etter  Creche,  2421  Wabash  Ave Calumet  2398 

Ogontz,   1314  W.   19th   St Canal   508 

Paulists,  66  Eldridge  Place Harr.  7161 

St.  Elizabeth,  906  N.  Franklin  St North  2139 

St.  Elizabeth,  1360  N.  Ashland  Ave Monroe  5314 

Stock  Yards,   4758  S.   Marshfleld  Ave Yards  3229 

ORGANIZATIONS  FOR  LAW   ENFORCEMENT. 

Anti-Cruelty  Society,  112  N.  La  Salle  St Main  3669 

Investigates  cases  of  cruelty  to  children. 
Bureau   of  Personal   Service,    730   W.    12th   St Monroe   5293 

Juvenile  protective  organization  for  Jews. 
Citizens'   League  of   Chicago,   1405  Ashland  Blk Central  799 

For  the  suppression  of  the  sale  of  liquor  to  minors  and 

drunkards. 
Illinois  Humane  Society,  1145  S.  Wabash  Ave Harr.  7005 

Investigates  cases  of  cruelty  to  children. 


Address.  Telephone. 

Juvenile  Protective  Association,  816  S.  Halsted  St Monroe  5788 

For  the  prevention  of  juvenile  delinquency  and  dependency. 
Legal  Aid  Society,   31  W.  Lake  St Rand.  647 

To  secure  justice  for  men,  women  and  children. 
Law  and  Order  League,  19  S.  La  Salle  St Central  4585 

Assists  in  the  enforcement  of  laws  and  ordinances. 

PUBLIC    DEPARTMENTS   FOR   JUVENILE   WELFARE. 

Compulsory  Education  Department,  7  S.  Dearborn  St.. Central  3981 

Enforces  compulsory  education  law. 
Health  Department,  City  Hall Main  447 

Enforces  sanitary  laws. 
Juvenile  Court,   771  Ewing  St Monroe  3836 

Enforces  Juvenile   Court  law. 
Censor  of  Public  Amusements,  City  Hall Main  447 

Sergeant  O'Donnell,  Police  Dept. 
State  Factory  Inspector,  189  W.  Madison  St Frank.  843 

Enforces  child  labor  law. 
Public  Guardian  of  Cook  County,   155  N.   Clark  St Central  2613 

PHYSICAL   WELFARE. 

Visiting  Nurses'  Association,  127  N.  Dearborn  St Central  1142 

Child  Study  Dept.,  Board  of  Education,  7  S.  Dearborn  St. Cent.  3981 

Health  Department,  City  Hall Main  447 

Psychopathic  Clinic,  Juvenile  Court,  771  Ewing  St Monroe  3836 

Municipal   Tuberculosis   Sanitorium — 

General  office,  Room  411,  157  W.  Adams  St Main  1466 

Dispensary  Dept.,  Room  411,  157  W.  Adams  St Frank.  1429 

(Newly  organized  as  a  city  institution.) 
Chicago    Home    for    Destitute    Crippled    Children    (Hospital), 

1653  Park  Ave West  232 

TEMPORARY  REFUGES  FOR  WOMEN,  GIRLS  AND  CHILDREN. 

Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless,  51st  St.  and  Vincennes  Ave. 

For  women  and  children.  Oak.  939 

Salvation  Army  Rescue  and  Maternity  Home,  1332  La  Salle  Ave. 

For  girls  and  women.  North  2012 

Florence  Crittenden  Anchorage,  2615  Indiana  Ave Calumet  1417 

For  fallen  girls. 
Beulah  Home,  2144  N.  Clark  St Lincoln  5 

For  fallen   women  and  girls. 
Foundlings'  Home,  15  S.  Wood  St West  1398 

For  abandoned  infants  and  homeless  mothers  with  infants. 
Home  for  Friendless  Jewish  Children,  53d  St.  and  Ellis  Ave. 

Hyde  Park  2643 

BOARDING    HOMES   FOR   GIRLS. 

Eleanor  Association,  27  E.  Randolph  St Central  5589 

Five  boarding  clubs  for  working  girls. 

Mercy  Home  for  Working  Girls,  2834  Wabash  Ave Calumet  650 

Miriam  Club,  436  Bowen  Ave Oakland  1166 

For  Jewish  working  girls. 
Ruth  Club,  4435  Sidney  Ave Oakland  1137 

For  Jewish  working  girls. 
Susanna  Wesley  Home,  3330  Indiana  Ave Aldine  352 

For  Scandinavian  working  girls  and  women. 

Volunteers  of  America,   1317  Washington  Blvd Monroe  2934 

The   Phyllis   Wheatley   Home,    3530    Forest   Ave Douglass    5975 

For  colored  working  girls. 
St.  Mary's  Home  for  Girls,  2822  W.  Jackson  Blvd West  181 

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BOARDING    HOMES   FOR    BOYS. 

Address.  Telephone. 

Chicago  Homes  for  Boys,   1506  W.  Adams  St Monroe  519 

(Champlin  Memorial  Home.) 

Deborah  Boys'  Club,  4044  Prairie  Ave Oakland  4677 

For  Jewish  working  boys. 
Working  Boys'   Home,    1140   W.   Jackson  Blvd Monroe   969 

HOME    FINDING. 

Kinderfreund  Society  of  Illinois,  2606  Cornelia  St Humb.  1616 

(German.)      Secretary,   Rev.   August   Schlecte. 
Illinois  Children's  Home  and  Aid  Society,  127  N.  Dearborn  St. 

Cent.  808 

Visitation  and  Aid  Society,  127  N.  Dearborn  St Cent.  172 

Foundlings'   Home,   15   S.   Wood  St West  1398 

Home  Finding  Society,  3422  Hirsch  St Belmont  2919 

For  Swedes,  Norwegians  and  Danes.     Rev.  Birkelund. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 

League  for  Protection  of  Immigrants,  743  Plymouth  Ct..Harr.  6576 

Playground  Association,   31   W.   Lake   St Rand.  663  &  3818 

City  Garden  Association,  1548  Tribune  Bldg Central  2736 

Provides  small  garden  plots  for  destitute  families. 

SOCIAL    SETTLEMENTS. 

Association  House,  2150  W.  North  Ave Humb.   1428 

Abraham  Lincoln  Center,   Oakwood  Blvd.   and  Langley  Ave. 

Doug.  1103 

Chicago  Commons,  Grand  Ave.,  cor.  N.  Morgan  St Monroe  1030 

Chicago   Hebrew   Institute,    1258    W.    Taylor    St.,    n.    w.    cor. 

Lytle    Monroe  3443 

Christopher  House,  1528  Fullerton  Ave Lincoln  675 

Charles  Surnner  Settlement,   1951  Fulton  St West  615 

Eli  Bates  House,  621  W.  Elm  St North  3608 

Elizabeth  E.  Marcy  Home,  1335  Newberry  Ave Canal  580 

Esther  E.   Falkenstein  Settlement  House,   1917  N.   Humboldt 

Blvd Humb.  4151 

Fellowship  House,  831  W.  33d  PI Yards  5292 

Forward  Movement,  1356  W.  Monroe  St Monroe  1386 

Francis  E.   Clark  Settlement,   250  W.   22d  St 

Frederick  Douglass   Center,    3032  Wabash  Ave Doug.    207 

Gads  Hill  Center,   1959  W.   20th  St Canal  963 

Halsted  St.  Institutional  Church  Settlement,  1935  S.  Halsted  St. 

Henry  Booth  House,  707  W.  14th  PI Canal  1673 

Hull  House,  800  S.  Halsted  St Monroe  70 

Institutional  Church,   3825  Dearborn   St 

Maxwell  St.   Settlement,  1214  S.  Clinton  St Canal  1552 

Neighborhood  House,   6710  S.   May   St Went.   1169 

Northwestern  University  Settlement,  1400  Augusta  St.,  n.  w. 

cor.  Noble  Monroe  1717 

Olivet  House,  701  Vedder  St North  3071 

S.  Deering  Neighborhood  Center,  10441  Hoxie  Ave.... So.  Chgo.  1084 

South  End  Center,  3212  E.  91st  St So.  Chgo.  599 

St.  Mary's  Settlement,  656  W.  44th  St.,  n.  e.  cor.  Union  Ave. 

Yards  1529 
University  of  Chicago  Settlement,  4630  Gross  Ave Yards  596 


LAWS 

Note. — The  references  R.  S.  are  to  Revised 
Statutes,  Kurd,  1908;  the  references  R.  M. 
C.  are  to  the  Revised  Municipal  Code  of 
Chicago  of  1905. 

CONSTITUTIONAL  RIGHTS. 

EXTRADITION. — A    person    charged     in     any  const,  of 
state  with  any  crime,  who  shall  flee  from  justice,  V'tS-fv 
and  be  found  in  another  state,  shall,  on  demand  sec.' 2, 
of    the    executive    authority    of    the    state    from  Recg "p,  14 
which  he  fled,  be  delivered   up,   to  be  removed 
to  the  state  having  jurisdiction  of  the  crime. 

SUPREME  LAW  OF  LAND. — The  constitution  Const.  Of 
and   the   laws   of   the   United    States,    made    in  u.  s., 
pursuance  thereof,  and  all  treaties  made  under  sec.'i,  ' 
the  authority  of  the  United  States  shall  be  the  su-   |ecg"p  14 
preme   law   of    the   land;   the   judges   in    every 
state   shall  be   bound   thereby,    anything   in    the 
constitution   or   laws  of   any  state   to   the  con- 
trary notwithstanding. 

SEIZURES. — The    right   of   the   people   to   be  Amend,  to 
secure,  in   their  persons,  houses,  papers  and  ef-  £°ast' zYr 

,  .  ,  ,  11-  K.  b.,  p.  10. 

rects,  against  unreasonable  searches  and  seizures 
shall  not  be  violated. 

JEOPARDY. — No  person  shall  be  held  to  an-  Amend,  to 
swer  for  infamous  crime,  unless  on  a  present- 
ment  or  indictment  of  a  grand  jury,  except  in 
naval  or  military  cases;  nor  shall  any  person  be 
subject  for  the  same  offense  to  be  twice  put  in 
jeopardy  of  life  or  limb;  nor  shall  he  be  com- 
pelled in  any  criminal  case  to  be  a  witness 
against  himself  nor  to  be  deprived  of  life,  liberty 
or  property,  without  due  process  of  law,  etc. 


Amend,  to 
Const.  VIII. 
R.  S.,  p.  15. 


Amend,  to 
Const.  XIV, 
sec.  1. 
R.  S.,  p.  16. 


Const,  of 
111.,  Art.  I. 
R.  S.,  p.  54. 


Const,  of 
111.,  Art.  II. 
R.  S.,  p.  54. 


BAIL. — Excessive  bail  shall  not  be  required  nor 
excessive  fines  imposed  nor  cruel  and  unusual 
punishments  inflicted. 

WHO  CITIZENS. — All  persons  born  or  natu- 
ralized in  the  United  States  and  subject  to  the 
jurisdiction  thereof  are  citizens  of  the  United 
States,  and  of  the  state  wherein  they  reside.  No 
state  shall  make  or  enforce  any  law  which  shall 
abridge  the  privileges  or  immunities  of  citizens 
of  the  United  States,  nor  shall  any  state  deprive 
any  person  of  life,  liberty  or  property,  without 
due  process  of  law,  nor  deny  to  any  person  within 
its  jurisdiction  the  equal  protection  of  the  laws. 

BOUNDARIES  OF  STATE. — The  boundaries  and 
jurisdiction  of  the  state  shall  be  as  follows,  to 
wit:  Beginning  at  the  mouth  of  the  Wabash 
river;  thence  up  the  same,  and  with  the  line 
of  Indiana,  to  the  northwest  corner  of  said 
state;  thence  east,  with  the  line  of  the  same 
state,  to  the  middle  of  Lake  Michigan ;  thence 
north  along  the  middle  of  said  lake,  to  north 
latitude  42  degrees  and  30  minutes;  thence  west 
to  the  middle  of  the  Mississippi  river,  and 
thence  down  along  the  middle  of  that  river  to 
its  confluence  with  the  Ohio  river,  and  thence 
up  the  latter  river,  along  its  northwestern  shore 
to  the  place  of  beginning. 

BILL  OF  RIGHTS. 

No.  2.  No  person  shall  be  deprived  of  life, 
liberty,  or  property,  without  due  process  of 
law. 

No.  3.  The  free  exercise  and  enjoyment  of 
religious  worship  is  guaranteed  and  no  person 
shall  be  denied  any  right  because  of  his  religious 
opinions;  but  the  liberty  of  conscience  hereby 
secured  shall  not  be  construed  to  dispense  with 
oaths,  excuse  acts  of  licentiousness,  or  justify 
practices  inconsistent  with  the  peace  or  safety 
of  the  state,  etc. 


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No.  4.  Every  person  may  freely  speak,  write 
and  publish  on  all  subjects,  being  responsible 
for  the  abuse  of  that  liberty. 

No.  5.  The  right  of  trial  by  jury  as  hereto- 
fore enjoyed  shall  remain  inviolate. 

No.  7.  All  persons  shall  be  bailable  by  suffi- 
cient sureties  except  for  capital  offenses,  where 
the  proof  is  evident  or  the  presumption  great; 
the  writ  of  habeas  corpus  shall  not  be  suspended 
except  in  war  times. 

No.  8.  No  person  shall  be  held  to  answer 
for  a  criminal  offense  unless  on  indictment  of 
a  grand  jury,  except  in  cases  in  which  the  pun- 
ishment is  by  fine,  or  imprisonment  otherwise 
than  in  the  penitentiary,  in  cases  of  impeach- 
ment, and  in  naval  and  military  cases;  provided 
that  the  grand  jury  may  be  abolished  in  all 
cases. 

No.  9.  In  all  criminal  prosecutions  the  ac- 
cused shall  have  the  right  to  appear  and  defend 
in  person  and  by  counsel,  to  demand  the  nature 
and  cause  of  the  accusation  and  to  have  a  copy 
thereof,  to  meet  the  witnesses  face  to  face,  and 
to  have  process  to  compel  the  attendance  of 
witnesses  in  his  behalf  and  a  speedy  public  trial 
by  an  impartial  jury  in  the  county  in  which  the 
offense  is  alleged  to  have  been  committed. 

No.  10.  No  person  shall  be  compelled  in 
any  criminal  case  to  give  evidence  against  him- 
self or  to  be  twice  put  in  jeopardy  for  the  same 
offense. 

No.  ii.  All  penalties  shall  be  proportioned 
to  the  nature  of  the  offense. 

No.  17.  The  people  have  the  right  to  as- 
semble in  a  peaceable  manner  to  consult  for  the 
common  good,  to  make  known  their  opinions  to 
their  representatives  and  to  apply  for  redress  of 
grievances. 

No.  19.  Every  person  ought  to  obtain,  by 
law,  right  and  justice  freely,  and  without  being 

II 


Const,  of 
111.,  Art.  V, 
S  13.    R.  S., 
p.   62. 


Const,  of 
111.,  Art.  XII, 
S  1.    R.  S., 
p.  73. 


U.  S.  R.  S. 
1873.  §  2167. 


8  2172. 


U.  S.  R.  S. 
§   1873. 


obliged  to  purchase  it,  completely  and  without 
denial,  promptly,  and  without  delay. 

PARDONS,  ETC. — The  governor  shall  have 
the  power  to  grant  reprieves,  commutations  and 
pardons  after  conviction,  subject  to  such  regula- 
tions as  may  be  provided  relative  to  the  manner 
of  applying  therefor. 

MILITIA. — The  militia  of  the  state  shall  con- 
sist of  all  resident  and  able-bodied  persons  be- 
tween the  ages  of  18  and  45,  with  certain  ex- 
ceptions. 

NATURALIZATION. — Any  alien  being  under 
21  years,  who  has  resided  in  the  United  States 
three  years  next  preceding  his  arriving  at  that 
age  and  has  continued  to  reside  therein  to  the 
time  of  application  for  citizenship,  may,  after  he 
arrives  at  the  age  of  21  years  and  after  he  has 
resided  five  years  within  the  United  States,  in- 
cluding the  three  years  of  his  minority,  be  ad- 
mitted to  citizenship  without  having  made  the 
declaration  which  must  be  made  by  adults  two 
years  before  admission;  such  alien  can  make 
such  declaration  at  the  time  of  his  admission;  he 
shall  further  declare  on  oath  and  prove  to  the 
satisfaction  of  the  court  that  for  two  years  next 
preceding  it  has  been  his  bona  fide  intention 
to  become  a  citizen  of  the  United  States,  etc. 

§2172.  The  children  of  persons  who  have 
been  duly  naturalized  under  the  laws  of  the 
United  States,  being  under  the  age  of  21  years 
at  the  time  of  the  naturalization  of  their  par- 
ents, shall,  if  dwelling  in  the  United  States, 
be  considered  as  citizens  thereof;  and  the  chil- 
dren of  persons  who  now  are  or  have  been 
citizens  of  the  United  States  shall,  though  born 
out  of  the  limit  and  jurisdiction  of  the  United 
States,  be  considered  as  citizens  thereof. 

FUGITIVES  FROM  JUSTICE. — Whenever  any 
state  demands  any  person  as  a  fugitive  from 
justice,  from  another  state  to  which  such  per- 


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son  has  fled,  and  produces  an  indictment  found 
or  proper  affidavit  charging  the  person  demanded 
with  having  committed  a  crime,  properly  authen- 
ticated by  the  government,  it  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  executive  authority  of  the  state  to  which 
the  person  has  fled  to  cause  his  arrest  and  to 
send  notice  of  such  arrest  to  the  state  making 
the  demand  and  to  cause  the  fugitive  to  be  de- 
livered over  to  such  state. 

ABANDONMENT. 

ABANDONMENT  OF  WIFE  AND  CHILDREN. —  R.  s.,  ch.  68, 
Every  person  who  shall,  without  good  cause, 
abandon  his  wife  and  neglect  and  refuse  to 
maintain  and  provide  for  her,  or  who  shall 
abandon  his  or  her  minor  children  under  the 
age  of  12  years,  in  destitute  or  necessitous  cir- 
cumstances, and  wilfully  neglect  or  refuse  to 
maintain  or  provide  for  such  children,  shall  be 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor.  Penalty:  Fine  of  not 
less  than  $100,  or  more  than  $500,  or  imprison- 
ment in  county  jail,  house  of  correction  or  work 
house  for  not  less  than  one  nor  more  than  12 
months,  or  both.  The  fine,  in  whole  or  part, 
may  be  ordered  paid  to  the  wife  or  the  guardian 
of  the  children.  Before  or  after  conviction  the 
court,  instead  of  imposing  the  above  punish- 
ments or  in  addition  thereto,  having  regard  for 
the  financial  ability  of  the  defendant,  may  pass 
an  order  which  shall  be  subject  to  change  from 
time  to  time,  directing  the  defendant  to  pay 
a  certain  sum  weekly,  for  one  year,  to  the  wife 
or  guardian  of  the  minor  children,  or  to  release 
the  defendant  on  probation  for  one  year  upon 
his  entering  into  a  recognizance  with  or  with- 
out sureties.  If  the  defendant  shall  make  his 
personal  appearance  in  court  whenever  ordered 
to  do  so  within  a  year  and  shall  comply,  with 
the  terms  of  the  order  entered,  the  recognizance 
shall  be  void,  otherwise  of  full  force  and  effect. 

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If  the  court  be  satisfied  at  any  time  that  the 
defendant  has  violated  the  terms  of  its  order, 
it  may  sentence  the  defendant,  under  the  original 
conviction.  In  case  of  forfeiture  of  the  bond, 
the  sum  recovered  on  the  same  may  be  paid  in 
whole  or  in  part  to  the  wife  or  guardian  of  the 
minor  children. 

sec.  25.  EVIDENCE  FOR  PROSECUTION. — The  wife  may 

testify  under  this  act  as  to  all  matters,  includ- 
ing the  marriage  and  the  parentage  of  such  chil- 
dren. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,  PENALTY  FOR  ABANDONING  CHILD. — It  is  a 
felony  for  any  person  having  the  legal  control 
or  custody  of  any  child  under  one  year  of  age 
to  abandon  such  child.  Penalty:  Fine  of  not 
less  than  $300,  nor  more  than  $1,000,  or  im- 
prisonment in  penitentiary  not  exceeding  three 
years  or  both. 

R.  s.,  ch.  58,         EFFECT  OF  ABANDONMENT. — If  any  child  in 

sec.  i.  th|s  state  under  the  age  of  one  year  shall  be 

wilfully  abandoned  by  its  parents  and  taken 
and  cared  for  by  any  charitable  institution  in 
this  state  such  parents  shall  thenceforth  lose 
all  their  right,  control  and  authority  over  said 
child,  and  such  right,  control  and  authority  shall 
become  vested  in  said  institution. 

Sec.  2.  If  such  child  be  left  by  its  parents  at  any 

charitable  institution,  it  shall  be  deemed  a  wil- 
ful abandonment  for  the  purposes  of  this  act. 

Sec.  3.  In  case  of  illegitimate  children  or  where  the 

father  of  a  legitimate  child  shall  have,  wilfully 
deserted  his  family  for  one  year,  an  abandonment 
by  the  mother  shall  be  deemed  an  abandon- 
ment by  the  parents. 

ABDUCTION. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,         OF  FEMALE. — Whoever  entices  or  takes  away 
iec-  lt  any   unmarried   female  of   chaste   life  and   con- 

versation from   the  parent's  home  or  wherever 

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she  may  be  found,  for  the  purpose  of  prostitu- 
tion or  concubinage,  or  whoever  aids  in  it,  shall 
be  imprisoned  in  the  penitentiary  not  less  than 
one  nor  more  than  ten  years. 

OF  CHILD. — Whoever  unlawfully  takes  or  sec.  2. 
decoys  away  any  child  under  twelve  years  of 
age  with  the  intent  to  detain  or  conceal  it  from 
its  parents,  or  person  having  lawful  charge  of 
said  child,  shall  be  confined  in  the  county  jail, 
not  exceeding  one  year,  or  fined  not  more  than 
$2,000,  or  both.  Section  does  not  apply  to  one 
who  interferes  to  protect  child  from  abuse. 

ABORTION. 

PRODUCING. — Whoever  by  means  of  any  in-  R.  s.,  ch.  38, 
strument  or  medicine  produces  an   abortion   or  sec' 3- 
miscarriage   or    attempts   to   produce   the   same, 
unless  it  is  necessary  to  save  life,  shall  be  im- 
prisoned  in  the   penitentiary  not  less  than  one 
nor  more  than  ten  years.     In  case  the  mother 
dies,  such  person  is  guilty  of  murder. 

ADVERTISING  ABORTIFACIENT  DRUGS. — Ad-  sec.  6. 
vertising  or  printing  or  causing  to  be  advertised 
or  printed  any  pamphlet  or  book  suggesting 
where  or  from  whom  abortifacient  drugs,  any  in- 
strument or  any  information  or  knowledge  may 
be  obtained  for  the  purpose  of  causing  the  mis- 
carriage of  a  woman  pregnant  with  a  child,  is 
punishable  with  imprisonment  not  exceeding 
three  years  or  fine  not  exceeding  $1,000. 

ADOPTION. 

WHO    MAY  ADOPT. — Any   reputable   person  R.  s.,  ch.  4. 
can  petition  Circuit  or  County  Court  for  leave  sec<  *• 
to  adopt  a  child  or  to  change  a  child's  name. 
(See  sections  2  and  6  for  form  of  petition,  rights 
of  child,  parent,  etc.) 

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•ec.  s.  WHAT  COURT  MUST  FIND. — A  decree  for 

adoption  shall  be  made  when  the  court  shall 
find  that  (i)  the  parents  or  surviving  parent 
of  a  legitimate  child,  or  the  mother  of  an  il- 
legitimate child,  or,  if  the  child  has  no  parent 
living,  the  guardian,  if  any,  or  if  there  is  also 
no  guardian  known  to  petitioner,  then  a  near 
relative  of  the  child,  if  any  there  be,  consents 
to  the  adoption;  or  that  (2)  one  parent  con- 
sents and  that  the  other  is  unfit  for  any  reasons 
hereinafter  specified  to  have  the  child,  or  that 
both  parents  are,  or  that  the  surviving  parent 
or  that  the  mother  of  an  illegitimate  child  is, 
so  unfit  for  any  of  such  reasons — the  grounds 
of  unfitness  being  (a)  depravity,  (b)  open  and 
notorious  adultery  or  fornication,  (c)  habitual 
drunkenness  for  the  space  of  one  year  prior  to 
the  filing  of  the  petition,  (d)  extreme  and  re- 
peated cruelty  to  the  child,  (e)  abandonment 
of  the  child,  or  (f)  desertion  of  the  child  for 
more  than  six  months  next  preceding  the  filing 
of  the  petition;  or  that  (3)  the  person  or  persons 
whose  consent  is  required  has  been  deprived  of 
the  custody  of  such  child  by  a  court  and  such 
court  in  appointing  a  guardian  has  authorized 
such  guardian  to  consent  to  the  adoption  of 
such  child  without  notice  to  or  assent  by  the 
parents,  and  that  such  guardian  consents  to  the 
adoption;  that  the  petitioner  is  of  sufficient 
ability  to  bring  up  the  child  and  furnish  suit- 
able nurture  and  education  and  that  it  is  fit 
and  proper  and  for  the  best  interest  of  the  child 
that  such  adoption  should  be  made. 

sec.  4.  WHEN  CONSENT  OF  CHILD  Is  NECESSARY. — 

If  the  child  is  over  14  years  of  age,  adoption 
shall  not  be  made  without  his  consent. 

Sec.  5.  RIGHTS  OF  CHILD  ADOPTED. — An  adopted 

child  shall  be  deemed  for  the  purposes  of  in- 
heritance by  such  child,  and  other  legal  con- 
sequences of  the  natural  relation  of  parents  and 
children,  the  child  of  the  parents  by  adoption; 

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except  such  child  may  not  take  property  ex- 
pressly limited  to  the  bodies  of  the  parents  by 
adoption. 

EFFECT  AS  TO  NATURAL  PARENTS. — The  Sec.  8. 
natural  parents  of  the  adopted  child  shall  be  de- 
prived, by  the  decree,  of  all  legal  rights,  as 
respects  the  child,  and  the  child  shall  be  freed 
from  all  obligations  of  maintenance  and  obedience 
as  respects  such  parents. 

ADULTERATION. 

OF  FOODS,  CANDIES,  ETC. — Adulterating  food  R.  s.,  ch.  38. 
substances,   candy  or  confection   with   any  sub-  sec'   ' 
stance  which  is  poisonous  or  injurious  to  health 
for  the  purpose  of  sale;  keeping,  selling  or  offer- 
ing  for   sale   any   such   substance    intended    for 
food,  candy  or  confection,  when  it  is  known  that 
the  same  is  adulterated,   is  unlawful.     Punish- 
ment:   Not  exceeding  one  year  in  jail  or  a  fine 
not  exceeding  $1,000,  or  both. 

OF  LIQUORS. — Adulterating  for  the  purpose  sec.  8. 
of  sale  any  liquor  to  be  used  for  drink,  with 
opium,  etc.,  or  any  poisonous  substance,  or  keep- 
ing, selling  or  offering  for  sale  any  such  liquor 
shall  be  unlawful.  Punishment:  Confinement 
in  county  jail  not  exceeding  one  year,  or  fine 
not  exceeding  $1,000,  or  both. 

ADULTERY. 

ADULTERY. — Every   man   and   woman   living  R.  s.,  ch.  38, 
together  in  an  open  state  of  adultery  or  fornica-  sec- 11- 
tion  shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  $500,  or  con- 
fined in  county  jail  not  exceeding  one  year.  Pun- 
ishment doubled  for  second  offense  and  trebled 
for   third.      Intermarriage   of    parties    and    pay- 
ment of  costs  will  suspend  the  prosecution. 

Offense  may  be  proved  by  circumstances  rais-   Sec.  12. 
ing  the  presumption  of  co-habitation  and  unlaw- 
ful intimacy. 

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R.  M.  C., 
sec.  176. 


Sec.  177. 


Counc.  Pro- 


Counc.  Pro- 
ceedings for 
1910,  p.  456. 


ADVERTISEMENTS. 

MEDICAL  ADVERTISEMENTS  PROHIBITED.  —  It 
shall  be  unlawful  for  anyone  to  post  in  any 
place  advertisements  giving  information  from 
whom  or  where  remedies  of  any  kind  may  be 
obtained  for  the  cure,  prevention  or  treatment 
of  venereal  diseases.  Penalty:  Fine  of  not  less 
than  $25  nor  more  than  $50. 

OBSCENE  OR  IMMORAL  PICTURES.  —  Posting 
advertisements  containing  pictures  or  illustra- 
tions of  an  obscene  or  immoral  character  shall 
call  for  a  fine  of  not  less  than  $25,  nor  more 
than  $200. 

AMUSEMENTS. 

AMUSEMENTS,  CLASSIFICATION  FOR  LICENSE. 

—  INTOXICATING  LIQUORS.  —  All  theatricals, 
shows  and  amusements  .offered,  operated,  pre- 
sented or  exhibited  for  gain  or  for  admission, 
to  which  a  fee  is  charged,  are  divided  into  21 
classes. 

No  person  or  corporation,  either  as  owner, 
lessee,  manager,  officer  or  agent,  shall  give, 
conduct,  produce,  present  or  offer  for  gain  or 
profit  any  of  the  foregoing  entertainments  with- 
out a  license.  Penalty:  fine  not  to  exceed  $200 
for  each  offense  and  each  day  on  which  there 
is  a  violation  shall  constitute  a  separate  offense. 

It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to  sell 
or  give  away  any  intoxicating  liquors  in  any 
place  in  which  public  entertainments  are  given 
for  gain  or  in  any  room  connected  with  the 
same,  without  a  license  or  a  special  bar  permit 
from  the  mayor,  under  a  penaky  of  not  more 
than  $100. 

THEATERS  AND  PLACES  OF  AMUSEMENT  — 
PROHIBITING  MINORS.  —  It  shall  be  unlawful 
for  anyone  conducting  any  place  where  enter- 
tainments of  the  first,  second  or  third  class  are 
presented  for  gain  or  for  admission,  to  which 

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a  fee  is  required,  or  for  any  of  his  employees, 
to  permit  any  minor,  female  or  male,  under  the 
age  of  1 6  years  unless  she  or  he  be  employed 
in  the  theater,  or  under  14  years  when  she  or 
he  be  not  so  employed,  to  remain  therein  during 
any  time  when  such  place  is  not  open  to  the  pub- 
lic in  connection  with  a  public  performance 
given  therein,  unless  such  minor  person  is  ac- 
companied by  a  parent  or  other  adult  relative. 

Penalty  for  violating  the  above  is  a  fine  of 
from  one  to  two  hundred  dollars. 

Anyone  falsely  representing  himself  as  the 
parent  or  adult  relative  of  any  minor  person 
under  16  years  may  be  fined  from  ten  to  one 
thousand  dollars. 

AMUSEMENT    PLACES — DRESSING    ROOMS. —  counc.  Pro- 
It   is   the   duty    of    all    owners,    occupants    and   i909,1pg352°ir 
lessees  of  theaters  and  places  of  amusement  to 
provide   separate   dressing  rooms   for  males  and 
females  in  all  places  of  amusement  where  dress- 
ing rooms  are  provided  therein. 

It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  whether 
owner,  occupant  or  lessee  of  any  theater  or  place 
of  amusement,  to  permit  the  joint  use  by  both 
males  and  females  of  any  dressing  room  in  such 
place  of  amusement. 

BATHING  BEACHES — AMUSEMENTS  PROHIB-  counc.  PI-C- 
ITED.— None  of  the  amusements,  shows,  public 
exhibitions,  etc.,  enumerated  in  section  99,  Re- 
vised Municipal  Code  of  Chicago  of  1905  as 
amended,  shall  be  carried  on,  maintained  or 
permitted  upon  any  premises  in  the  city  where 
a  boating,  fishing  or  bathing  beach  is  located; 
should  any  such  amusement  be  permitted  con- 
trary to  this  provision  the  license  to  conduct 
such  beach  shall  at  once  be  revoked.  Penalty 
for  violating  the  ordinance,  fine  of  from  $50 
to  $200  for  each  offense,  *nd  each  day  during 
which  such  ordinance  is  violated  shall  be  deemed 
a  separate  offense. 

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APPRENTICES. 
R.  s.,  ch.  9,          AGE  AND  WHO  MAY  BIND. — Children  under 

sees,  land  2.     jg    years    Qf    age    may    ^    boun(}    Qut    as    appren. 

tices,  etc.,  until  they  arrive  at  that  age,  by  the 
parents  or  guardians  or  the  judges  of  the  County 
or  Circuit  Courts,  under  certain  conditions. 
Sec.  <s.  BEGGARS  AND  PAUPERS. — Children  under  16 

years  of  age  who  habitually  beg  and  who  are 
chargeable  to  the  county  or  city,  may  be  bound 
as  apprentices. 

ARBOR  AND  BIRD  DAY. 

Session  ARBOR  AND  BIRD  DAY. — The  governor  shall 

pa4i2'  19°9'  eac^  sPrmS  designate  a  day  to  be  known  as 
"Arbor  and  Bird  Day,"  and  to  be  observed 
throughout  the  state  for  planting  trees,  shrubs 
and  vines  about  the  homes  and  along  highways, 
and  about  public  grounds,  thus  contributing  to 
the  wealth,  comforts  and  attractions  of  our 
state. 

ARREST. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,         WITHOUT  WARRANT. — An  officer  or  private 
>ec.  342.  person  may  arrest  without  warrant  for  a  crim- 

inal offense  committed  or  attempted  in  his  pres- 
ence. An  officer  may  arrest  also  without  war- 
rant when  he  has  reasonable  ground  for  believ- 
ing that  the  person  to  be  arrested  has  committed 
a  crime. 

Sec.  348.  COMPLAINT. — When  complaint  has  been  made 

that  a  criminal  offense  has  been  committed,  it 
shall  be  reduced  to  writing  and  subscribed  and 
sworn  to  by  the  complainant;  such  complaint 
shall  contain  a  concise  statement  of  the  offense 
charged,  the  name  of  the  person  accused,  and 
state  that  the  complainant  has  just  and  reason- 
able grounds  to  believe  that  the  person  com- 
mitted the  offense. 

Upon    this    complaint    a    warrant    issues    di- 
rected to  all  sheriffs,  constables  and  bailiffs,  re- 

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quiring  the  person  to  whom  it  is  directed  to  take 
into  custody  forthwith  the  person  accused  and 
bring  him  before  the  court. 

NAME. — Where  the  name  of  the  defendant  Sec.  350. 
is  unknown  he  may  be  designated  by  any  name, 
description  or  circumstances  by  which  he  can 
be  identified  with  reasonable  certainty,  and,  if 
necessary,  may  be  tried  and  convicted  under 
such  name. 

SPECIAL  OFFICER. — The  judge  may  make  an  sec.  351. 
order   on    the  warrant   authorizing   any   person 
to  execute  the  same,  and  said  person  then  has 
like  powers  as  a  regular  officer. 

ARREST — IMPRISONMENT,  WORK-HOUSE. —  R.  s.,  ch.  24, 
In  actions  for  the  violation  of  ordinances  the 
first  process  shall  be  a  summons;  provided,  how- 
ever, that  a  warrant  for  the  arrest  of  the  of- 
fender may  issue  in  the  first  instance  upon  the 
affidavit  of  any  person  that  such  ordinance  has 
been  violated  and  that  there  is  reasonable 
ground  to  believe  the  party  charged  is  guilty 
thereof.  Persons  upon  whom  fines  have  been 
imposed  may  be  committed  to  the  county  jail, 
house  of  correction,  etc.,  until  such  fines  have 
been  paid.  No  imprisonment,  however,  shall 
exceed  six  months  for  any  one  offense.  The 
city  council  has  the  power  to  provide  that  every 
person  so  committed  shall  work  at  suitable  labor 
not  to  exceed  ten  hours  each  day;  they  shall  be 
allowed  the  sum  of  fifty  cents  for  each  day 
worked  to  apply  on  the  fines  and  costs. 

BASTARDY  AND  ILLEGITIMATES. 

COMPLAINT    BY    MOTHER. — Complaint    may  R.  s.,  ch.  17. 
be  made  by  an  unmarried  woman  who  shall  be  sec- 1- 
pregnant  or  delivered  of  a  child,  before  a  justice 
of  the  peace  or  in  the  Municipal  Court  in  the 
City   of    Chicago,    accusing   a   person   of    being 
the  father  of  a  bastard  child. 

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Sec.  4.  TRIAL. — The  Municipal  Court  shall  try  the 

issue  whether  or  not  the  person  charged  as 
aforesaid  is  the  real  father  of  the  child.  (See 
R.  S.  ch.  37,  Sec.  265,  Sixth  Class  (d).) 

Sec.  6.  WITNESSES. — The  parties  to  the  proceeding 

may  be  witnesses. 

Sec.  7.  JUDGMENT    FOR    DEFENDANT. — If     the    de- 

fendant is  found  not  guilty  the  woman  making 
the  complaint  shall  pay  the  costs,  and  judgment 
shall  be  entered  therefor,  and  execution  may 
issue  thereupon. 

sec.  s.  JUDGMENT    AGAINST    DEFENDANT. — If   the 

defendant  is  found  guilty  he  may  be  ordered 
to  pay  a  sum  of  money  not  exceeding  $100  for 
the  first  year  after  the  birth  of  such  child,  and 
a  sum  not  exceeding  $50  yearly  for  nine  years 
thereafter,  for  the  support  and  maintenance  of 
the  child.  Bond  may  be  ordered  for  the  security 
of  the  payment  of  said  judgment. 

Sec.  9.  COMMITMENT. — In   case  of   failure    to    give 

security  the  defendant  may  be  committed  to 
jail,  from  which  he  cannot  be  discharged  for  in- 
solvency or  inability  to  give  bond  within  six 
months  after  commitment. 

sec.  10.  MONEY,    How  USED. — The   money   received 

must  be  appropriated  to  the  support  of  the  child 
as  directed  by  the  court. 

sec.  13.  CUSTODY  OF  CHILD. — The  reputed  father  of 

the  child  has  no  right  to  the  custody  of  the 
child  where  the  mother  wishes  to  retain  con- 
trol of  it,  until  the  child  is  ten  years  of  age. 

sec.  14.  CHILD   DYING. — If   at  any  time  it   be  sug- 

gested to  the  court  that  the  child  has  died,  or 
was  never  born  alive,  any  bond  given  shall  thence- 
forth be  void. 

sec.  is.  MARRIAGE   OF    PARENTS — LEGITIMATED. — If 

the  mother  and  reputed  father  of  the  bastard 
child  intermarry  after  the  birth  of  said  child, 
it  shall  be  deemed  and  held  a  legitimate  child. 

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LIMITATION. — Prosecution     under     this     act  Sec.  16. 
must  be  started  within  two  years  from  the  birth 
of  the  bastard  child,  except  that  while  the  per- 
son accused  shall  be  absent  from  the  state,  time 
shall  not  be  computed. 

MOTHER  MAY  RELEASE. — With  the  written  sec.  17. 
consent  of  the  County  Court  the  mother  of  a 
bastard  child  can  release  the  reputed  father 
upon  the  payment  of  any  sum  to  her.  She  can 
release  the  reputed  father  without  the  consent 
of  court  upon  the  payment  of  not  less  than  $400. 

CONCEALING  DEATH  OF  BASTARD — PUNISH-  R.  s.,  ch.  38, 
MENT. — Any  woman  who  endeavors  in  any  way  sec'     * 
to  conceal  the  death  of  a  child  which,  if  born 
alive,  would  be  a  bastard,  whether  it  shall  have 
been  murdered  or  not,  shall  be  confined  in  the 
county  jail  not   exceeding  one  year.     Act  does 
not  prevent  such   mother   from   being  punished 
for  murder  of  such  child. 

DESCENT — ILLEGITIMATES. — An    .'illegitimate  R.  s.,  ch.  39, 
child  shall  be  heir  of  its  mother  and  of  any  per-   sec>  2- 
son    from    whom    its    mother    might    inherit,    if 
living;    the   lawful   issue   an   illegitimate   person 
shall  take  by  descent  any  estate  which  the  par- 
ent would  have  taken,  if  living. 

(For  further  information  see  the  statutes.) 

CHILD   LEGITIMATED. — An   illegitimate  child  sec.  3. 
whose    parents    have    intermarried     and     whose 
father  has  acknowledged  it  as  his  child  shall  be 
considered  legitimate. 

BILLIARDS   AND   POOL. 

BILLIARDS    AND    POOL — MINORS     NOT    TO  R.  M.  c., 
PLAY. — No  person  who  keeps,    conducts  or  op-  sec' 168' 
crates   any  billiard   or  pool  table  for  profit  or 
who  conducts  or  operates  any  room  wherein  is 
kept  or  operated  for  profit  any  billiard  or  pool 
table,   shall   permit  or  allow  any  minor   under 
1 8  years  of  age  to  play  thereon  or  to  be  or  re- 

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Amend.  Ill 
to  R.  M.  C., 
sec.  1338. 


Amend,  to 
R.  M.  C., 
p.  110. 


R.  S.,  ch.  24, 
sec.  62. 


main   in  such  premises.     Penalty:   Fine  of   not 
less  than  $10,  nor  more  than  $50. 

Any  such  minor  found  playing  on  any  such 
billiard  or  pool  table  or  found  in  any  such  pool 
or  billiard  room  shall  be  fined  not  less  than 
$5  nor  more  than  $50. 

CANDY  STORES. 

SELLING  LIQUOR  IN  CANDY  STORES,  ETC. — 
No  license  shall  be  issued  for  the  purpose  of 
keeping  a  saloon  or  dram  shop  in  connection 
with  a  candy  store,  ice  cream  parlor,  fruit  store 
or  bakery;  nor  shall  intoxicating  liquors  be 
sold  in  any  such  place. 

CANDY  CONTAINING  INTOXICATING  LIQUORS 
— SALE  FORBIDDEN. — No  person,  firm  or  cor- 
poration shall  produce,  sell  or  give  away  or  have 
in  his  or  its  possession  for  the  purpose  of  selling, 
etc.,  any  candy  or  other  confectionery  which 
contains  iany  kind  of  intoxicating  liquors  or 
which  contains  any  substance  that  imparts  to 
such  confectionery  color,  flavor  or  aroma,  unless 
such  substance  is  wholly  a  vegetable  product  and 
is  not  injurious  to  health. 

The  health  department  shall  inspect  all  candy 
stores  in  the  city,  and  cause  the  arrest  of  per- 
sons violating  this  ordinance. 

Penalty  for  violation:  Fine  from  $10  to  $200 
for  each  offense. 

CITY  COUNCILS. 

POWERS  OF  THE  CITY  COUNCIL. — The  city 
council  in  cities,  and  the  president  and  the  board 
of  trustees  in  villages,  shall  have,  among  others, 
the  following  powers: 

Forty-first.  To  license,  tax,  regulate,  sup- 
press and  prohibit  hawkers,  peddlers,  pawnbrok- 
ers, keepers  of  ordinaries,  theatricals  and  other 
exhibitions,  shows  and  amusements  and  to  re- 
voke such  license  at  pleasure. 

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Forty-fifth.  To  suppress  bawdy  and  dis- 
orderly houses,  houses  of  ill-fame  or  assignation, 
within  the  limits  of  the  city  or  within  three 
miles  of  the  outer  boundaries  of  the  city;  also 
to  suppress  gambling,  lottery  and  all  fraudulent 
devices  and  practices;  and  to  prohibit  the  sale 
or  exhibition  of  obscene  or  immoral  publica- 
tions, prints,  pictures  or  illustrations. 

Forty-sixth.  To  license,  regulate,  prohibit 
the  selling  or  giving  away  of  any  intoxicating 
malt,  vinous,  mixed  or  fermented  liquor. 

Forty-eighth.  The  city  council  shall  have  the 
power  to  forbid  and  punish  the  selling  or  giv- 
ing away  of  any  intoxicating  liquors  to  any 
minor,  apprentice  or  servant,  or  insane,  idiotic 
or  distracted  person,  habitual  drunkard  or  per- 
son intoxicated. 

Fifty-eighth.  To  regulate  places  of  amuse- 
ment. 

Fifty-ninth.  To  prevent  intoxication,  etc., 
and  all  disorderly  conduct. 

Ninety-fifth.  To  tax,  license  and  regulate 
second-hand  and  junk  stores  and  to  forbid  their 
purchasing  or  receiving  from  minors,  without  the 
written  consent  of  their  parents  or  guardians, 
any  article  whatsoever. 

Ninety-seventh.  To  pass  all  ordinances,  rules, 
etc.,  to  carry  into  effect  the  powers  granted  the 
cities,  with  fines  not  to  exceed  $200  and  im- 
prisonment not  to  exceed  six  months,  for  one 
offense. 

CHILD  LABOR. 

CERTAIN  EMPLOYMENTS  OF  CHILDREN  FOR-  R.  s.,  ch.  38, 
BIDDEN. — It  shall   be  unlawful   for  any  person  sec' 42a' 
having  the  care,  custody  or  control  of  any  child 
under  the  age  of  14  years  to  exhibit,  use  or  em- 
ploy, sell,  apprentice,  give  away  or  let  out  any 
such  child  to  any  person  in  or  for  the  vocation 
of  singing,  playing  on  musical  instruments,  rope 
or  wire  walking,  dancing,  begging  or  peddling, 

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or  as  a  gymnast,  contortionist,  rider  or  acrobat 
in  any  place  whatsoever,  or  for  any  obscene,  in- 
decent, or  immoral  purpose,  exhibition  or  prac- 
tice whatsoever,  or  for  or  in  any  business  or  ex- 
hibition injurious  to  the  health  or  dangerous  to 
the  life  or  limb  of  such  child,  or  cause,  procure 
or  encourage  any  such  child  to  engage  therein. 
Engagement  of  children  to  sing  in  churches, 
schools,  etc.,  excepted. 

sec.  42b.  UNLAWFUL  TO   EXHIBIT. — Practically    same 

as  Sec.  423. 

Sec.  42c.  ORDER  AS  TO  CUSTODY. — When  it  shall  ap- 

pear to  the  court  that  a  child  has  been  engaged 
or  used  in  violation  of  Sec.  423,  or  anyone  hav- 
ing the  custody  of  a  child  shall  have  been  con- 
victed of  a  criminal  assault  upon  such  child,  if 
the  court  deems  it  desirable  that  such  person 
shall  be  deprived  of  the  custody  of  the  child, 
such  child  shall  thereafter  be  deemed  to  be  in 
the  custody  of  the  court,  and  the  court  may  make 
such  order  as  to  the  custody  thereof  as  now  is 
or  hereafter  may  be  provided  by  law  in  cases 
of  vagrant,  truant,  disorderly,  pauper,  or  desti- 
tute children. 

sec.  42d.  ENDANGERING  LIFE  OR  HEALTH. — It  is  un- 

lawful for  any  person  to  permit  the  life  of  any 
child  in  his  or  her  custody  to  be  endangered, 
or  its  health  to  be  injured. 

Sec.  42e.  PENALTY. — For  a  first   offense,    fine   not    ex- 

ceeding  $100    or    imprisonment    in    the    county 
jail,    or    both.      For   second    or    subsequent    of- 
fense, fine  not  exceeding  $500  or  imprisonment 
in  penitentiary  not  exceeding  two  years,  or  both. 
R.  s.,  ch.  48,         CHILD  LABOR — CHILD  UNDER  14. — A  child 
sec.  20.  under  14  years  of  age  shall  not  be  employed,  per- 

mitted or  suffered  to  work  at  any  gainful  occu- 
pation in  a  theater,  concert  hall  or  place  of 
amusement  where  intoxicating  liquors  are  sold 
or  in  any  mercantile  institution,  store,  office, 
hotel,  laundry,  manufacturing  establishment, 

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bowling  alley,  passenger  or  freight  elevator,  fac- 
tory of  work  shop,  or  as  a  messenger  or  driver 
therefor,  in  this  state.  No  child  under  14  years 
of  age  shall  be  employed  at  any  work  performed 
for  any  compensation,  to  whomsoever  payable, 
during  any  portion  of  any  month  when  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  the  city  in  which  he  or  she  resides 
are  in  session,  nor  be  employed  before  seven 
o'clock  in  the  morning  or  after  six  o'clock  in 
the  evening.  No  child  shall  be  allowed  to  work 
more  than  eight  hours  per  day. 

REGISTER. — Every  person,  firm  or  corpora-  Sec.  20a. 
tion  employing  minors  over  14  years  and  under 
1 6  years  of  age  in  any  mercantile  institution, 
store,  office,  hotel,  laundry,  manufacturing  estab- 
lishment, bowling  alley,  theater,  concert  hall,  or 
place  of  amusement,  passenger  or  freight  eleva- 
tor, factory  or  work  shop,  or  as  messenger  or 
driver  therefor,  shall  keep  a  register  in  such 
place  in  which  shall  be  recorded  the  name,  age 
and  place  of  residence  of  every  child  so  em- 
ployed. No  person,  firm  or  corporation  shall 
employ  or  permit  to  work  any  child  over  14 
years  and  under  16  years  of  age  in  any  of  the 
above-mentioned  places  unless  an  age  and  school 
certificate,  approved  as  hereinafter  provided,  is 
first  produced  and  placed  on  file  in  such  place 
of  business. 

WALL  LISTS. — There  shall  be  posted  in  a  Sec.  20b. 
conspicuous  place  in  every  room  in  every  estab- 
lishment employing  five  or  more  children  over 
the  age  of  14  and  under  the  age  of  16  years, 
in  any  of  the  foregoing  employments,  a  list  con- 
taining the  name,  age  and  place  of  residence  of 
every  such  person  employed  or  permitted  to 
work  in  such  room. 

AGE    AND    SCHOOL    CERTIFICATE. — Children  sec.  20c. 
over  14  and  under  1 6  years  of  age  shall  not  be 
employed    in    any   of    the    above-mentioned    em- 
ployments  unless   an   age  and   school   certificate 

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is  first  produced  and  placed  on  file  in  such  place 
of  business,  accessible  to  any  State  Factory  In- 
spector, and  unless  a  complete  list  of  minors 
under  the  age  of  16  years  employed  in  such 
place  who  cannot  read  at  sight  and  write  legibly 
simple  sentences  is  kept  on  file  and  produced  on 
demand  of  said  inspectors,  except  when  such 
child  is  attending  night  school. 

Sec.  20d.  AGE   AND   SCHOOL    CERTIFICATES — HOW   AP- 

PROVED. — Age  and  school  certificates  shall  be 
approved  by  the  Superintendent  of  Schools  or 
some  person  authorized  by  him  in  writing,  or 
authorized  by  the  School  Board.  Superintend- 
ents or  principals  of  parochial  schools  shall  have 
the  same  rights  and  powers  as  a  superintendent 
of  public  schools.  Members  of  a  School  Board 
shall  have  no  authority  to  issue  certificates  for 
children  about  to  enter  their  own  establish- 
ments. Persons  approving  these  certificates  shall 
have  power  to  administer  oaths,  but  no  fee  shall 
be  charged. 

Sec.  20e.  PROOF  OF  AGE. — An  age  and  school  certificate 

shall  not  be  approved  unless  satisfactory  evi- 
dence is  furnished  by  the  last  school  census,  a 
certificate  of  birth  or  baptism,  the  register  of 
birth  with  a  town  or  city  clerk,  or  the  records 
of  the  public  or  parochial  schools,  that  such  child 
is  of  the  age  stated  in  the  certificate.  If  such 
proof  is  not  obtainable,  the  parent  or  guardian 
shall  make  oath  before  the  Juvenile  or  County 
Court  as  to  the  age  of  such  child,  and  the  court 
may  issue  a  certificate. 

sec.  201.  EMPLOYMENT  TICKET. — No  age  and  school 

certificate  shall  issue  except  upon  the  presenta- 
tion of  a  school  attendance  certificate  properly 
filled  out  and  signed.  A  duplicate  of  all  age 
and  school  certificates  shall  be  forwarded  to  the 
State  Factory  Inspector.  (For  forms  of  a  school 
certificate,  evening  school  attendance  certificate 

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and  an  age  and  school  certificate,  see  this  sec- 
tion in  the  Revised  Statutes.) 

ILLITERACY. — In  case  a  child  cannot  read  at 
sight  and  write  legibly  simple  sentences  the  cer- 
tificate shall  continue  as  follows,  after  the  word 
sentences:  "I  hereby  certify  that  (he  or  she) 
is  regularly  attending  the  (name  of  public,  par- 
ochial or  evening  school)."  The  certificate  shall 
continue  in  force  just  as  long  as  the  regular  at- 
tendance of  said  child  at  said  evening  school 
is  certified  weekly  by  the  teacher  and  principal 
of  said  school. 

EVENING  SCHOOL. — Where  there  is  no  even- 
ing school,  an  age  and  school  certificate  shall 
not  be  approved  for  a  child  under  16  years  of 
age  who  cannot  read  at  sight  and  write  legibly 
simple  sentences.  This  also  applies  when  there 
are  no  evening  schools  in  session.  The  certificate 
of  the  principal  shall  be  prima  facie  evidence  as 
to  the  literacy  or  illiteracy  of  the  child. 

SCHOOLING  REQUIRED. — No  one  shall  em-  sec.  20g. 
ploy,  nor  shall  a  parent  or  guardian  permit  to 
be  employed,  any  minor  over  14  years  and  under 
1 6  years  of  age,  who  cannot  read  at  sight  and 
write  legibly  simple  sentences,  while  a  public 
evening  school  is  maintained  in  the  city,  unless 
such  minor  is  a  regular  attendant  at  such  school. 

DUTIES  OF  STATE  INSPECTORS  OF  FACTORIES,  sec.  20h. 
— The    State   Factory   Inspector   shall   visit   all 
places  where  minors  are  employed   to  ascertain 
whether  or  not  there  are  violations  of  this  act. 

HOURS  OF  LABOR. — No  person  under  16  sec.  201. 
years  of  age  shall  be  employed  more  than  48 
hours  in  one  week,  nor  more  than  8  hours  in 
one  day;  or  before  7  o'clock  in  the  morning  or 
after  7  o'clock  at  night.  Every  employer  shall 
post  in  a  conspicuous  place  in  every  room  where 
minors  are  employed  a  notice  stating  the  hours 
required  of  them  each  day,  the  hours  of  com- 
mencing and  stopping  work,  and  the  hours  for 

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meals.  A  form  of  such  notice  shall  be  furnished 
the  State  Factory  Inspector. 

sec.  20j.  EMPLOYMENTS  FORBIDDEN  CHILDREN  UNDER 

1 6  YEARS  OF  AGE. — No  child  under  the  age  of 
1 6  years  shall  be  employed  at  sewing  belts  or 
to  assist  at  sewing  belts,  in  any  capacity  what- 
ever; nor  shall  any  child  adjust  any  belt  to  any 
machinery;  they  shall  not  oil  or  assist  in  oiling, 
wiping  or  cleaning  machinery;  they  shall  not 
operate  or  assist  in  operating  circular  or  band 
saws,  wood  shapers,  wood  jointers,  planers, 
sandpaper  or  wood  polishing  machinery,  emery 
or  polishing  wheels,  used  for  polishing  metal, 
wood-turning  or  boring  machinery,  stamping  ma- 
chines in  sheet  metal  or  tinware  manufacturing, 
stamping  machines  in  washer  and  nut  factories, 
operating  corrugating  rolls  such  as  are  used  in 
roofing  factories,  nor  shall  they  be  employed  in 
operating  any  passenger  or  freight  elevators, 
steam  boilers,  steam  machinery,  or  other  steam 
generating  apparatus,  or  as  pin  boys  in  any  bowl- 
ing alley;  they  shall  not  operate  or  assist  in 
operating  dough  brakes  or  cracker  machinery; 
wire  or  iron  straightening  machinery;  nor  shall 
they  operate  or  assist  in  operating  rolling  ma- 
chinery, punches  or  shears,  washing,  grinding 
or  mixing  mill  or  calendar  rolls  in  rubber  manu- 
facturing, nor  shall  they  operate  or  assist  in 
operating  laundry  machinery;  nor  shall  children 
be  employed  in  any  capacity  in  preparing  any 
composition  in  which  dangerous  or  poisonous 
acids  are  used,  and  they  shall  not  be  employed 
in  any  capacity  in  the  manufacture  of  paints, 
colors  or  white  lead;  nor  shall  they  be  employed 
in  any  capacity  whatever  in  operating  or  assist- 
ing to  operate  any  passenger  or  freight  elevators ; 
nor  shall  they  be  employed  in  any  capacity  what- 
ever in  the  manufacture  of  goods  for  immoral 
purposes,  or  any  other  employment  that  may 
be  considered  dangerous  to  their  lives  or  limbs, 
or  where  their  health  may  be  injured  or  morals 

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depraved;  nor  in  any  theater,  concert  hall  or 
place  of  amusement  wherein  intoxicating  liquors 
are  sold;  nor  shall  females  under  16  years  of 
age  be  employed  in  any  capacity  where  such 
employment  compels  them  to  remain  standing 
constantly. 

PRIMA  FACIE  EVIDENCE  OF  EMPLOYMENT. —  sec.  20k. 
The  presence  of  a  child  under  16  years  of  age 
in   any  manufacturing   establishment  shall   con- 
stitute prima  facie   evidence   of  its   employment 
there. 

ENFORCEMENT  OF  THIS    ACT. — The    State  sec.  201. 
Factory    Inspector   shall   enforce    the   provisions 
of  this  act  and   prosecute  all  violations  of  the 
same.     He   and  his  deputies  are   authorized   to 
visit  and  inspect  all  places  covered  by  this  act. 

PENALTY. — Whoever,  having  under  his  con-  sec.  20m. 
trol  a  child  under  1 6  years  of  age,  permits  such 
child  to  be  employed  in  violation  of  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act,  shall  for  each  offense  be  fined 
not  less  than  $5  nor  more  than  $25,  and  shall 
stand  committed  until  such  fine  and  costs  are 
paid. 

Failure  to  produce  to  Factory  Inspector  age 
and  school  certificates  or  lists  required  by  this 
act  is  a  violation  of  the  same.  Penalty:  fine 
not  less  than  $5  nor  more  than  $50.  Any  per- 
son certifying  to  any  material  false  statement 
in  the  certificates  provided  for  by  this  act,  there- 
by violates  the  same.  Penalty:  not  less  than 
$5  nor  more  than  $100  fine. 

Any  firm  or  corporation  violating  or  failing 
to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  this  act  or 
refusing  admittance  to  premises  to  the  Factory 
Inspector  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor.  Pen- 
alty: fine  of  not  less  than  $5  nor  more  than  $100. 

CHILD  UNDER  14  NOT  TO  BE  EMPLOYED. —  sec.  24. 
No  child  under  14  years  of  age  shall  be  employed 
in  any  manufacturing  establishment,   or  factory 
or  workshop  in  this  state.     Every  person,  firm 

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or  corporation  employing  children  shall  keep  a 
register  in  which  shall  be  recorded  the  name, 
birthplace,  age  and  place  of  residence  of  every 
person  employed  under  the  age  of  16  years; 
and  no  person,  firm  or  corporation  shall  employ 
any  child  over  14  and  under  16  years  in  any 
manufacturing  establishment,  etc.,  unless  an 
affidavit  of  the  parent  or  guardian,  stating  the 
age,  date  and  place  of  birth  of  such  child,  is 
first  placed  on  file;  said  register  and  affidavits 
may  be  inspected  by  the  Factory  Inspector.  Fac- 
tory Inspector  may  demand  at  any  time  a  certifi- 
cate of  physical  fitness  from  some  regular  phy- 
sician, in  cases  of  children  who  appear  physically 
unable  to  perform  the  labor  at  which  they  may 
be  engaged.  In  case  minor  cannot  obtain  such 
certificate  Inspector  shall  have  power  to  prohibit 
the  employment  of  such  child. 

Sec.  38>  HOURS  OF  EMPLOYMENT — CHILDREN  UNDER 

1 6. — No  person  under  16  years  shall  be  em- 
ployed or  suffered  to  work  for  wages  at  any 
gainful  occupation  more  than  sixty  hours  per 
week  or  ten  hours  in  any  one  day. 

sec.  37.  EVIDENCE   OF   EMPLOYMENT. — The  presence 

of  any  person  under  16  years  in  any  manufac- 
turing establishment,  etc.,  shall  constitute  prima 
fade  evidence  of  his  employment  therein. 

Sec.  38.  EXTRA  HAZARDOUS  EMPLOYMENT. — No  child 

under  the  age  of  16  years  shall  be  employed,  or 
permitted  or  suffered  to  work  by  any  person, 
firm  or  corporation  in  this  state  at  such  extra 
hazardous  employment  whereby  its  life  or  limb 
is  in  danger,  or  its  health  is  likely  to  be  injured, 
or  its  morals  may  be  depraved.  (For  penalty 
see  Sec.  41  of  this  act.) 

R.  M.  c.,  CRUELTY  TO  CHILDREN  —  EXHIBITION. — 

Practically  same  as  Sec.  42a,  Criminal  Code,  R. 
S.  It  adds  that  the  vocations  enumerated  shall 
not  be  followed  in  any  saloons,  or  in  the  streets 
or  alleys. 

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LIFE  OR  HEALTH  ENDANGERED. — No  person  sec.  1447. 
shall  take  or  receive  any  child  under   14  years 
of  age  for  any  employment  dangerous  to  health. 

PENALTY. — Any  person  violating  1446  and  sec.  1448. 
1447  supra,  or  who  is  guilty  of  cruelty  to  any 
child  (i)  by  cruelly  beating,  torturing,  over- 
working, etc.;  (2)  by  unnecessarily  failing  to 
provide  any  child  in  his  charge  with  proper  food, 
drink,  shelter  or  raiment;  (3)  by  abandoning 
any  child;  (4)  by  willfully  and  unnecessarily 
exposing  to  the  inclemency  of  the  weather  or 
by  injuring  in  any  manner  such  child  in  health 
or  limb,  shall  be  fined  from  $5  to  $100  for 
each  offense. 

MINORS   EMPLOYED  IN   PAWN   SHOPS. — No  sec.  isse. 
pawn   broker   shall   employ    minors    under     16 
years  of  age  to  take  pledges  in  pawn  for  him. 

COCAINE  AND  OPIUM. 

SALE  OF  COCAINE  FORBIDDEN. — It  shall  be  R.  s.,  ch.  91. 
unlawful  for  any  druggist  or  other  person  to  sec<  32a- 
retail,  sell  or  give  away,  any  cocaine,  alpha  or 
beta,  eucaine,  or  any  salt  or  any  compound  or 
derivative  of  the  foregoing  substances,  except 
upon  the  written  prescription  of  a  duly  regis- 
tered physician,  which  prescription  shall  contain 
the  name  and  address  of  the  person  for  whom 
prescribed,  and  the  date  the  same  shall  have  been 
filled,  and  shall  be  permanently  retained  on  file 
by  the  person,  firm  or  corporation  where  the 
same  shall  have  been  filled,  and  it  shall  be  filled 
but  once,  and  of  it  no  copy  shall  be  taken,  and 
the  original  shall  at  all  times  be  open  to  the 
inspection  of  the  p^escriber,  to  the  State  Board 
of  Pharmacy,  and  all  officers  of  the  law.  The 
above  does  not  interfere  with  the  sale  of  the 
foregoing  drugs  at  wholesale  upon  the  written 
order  of  a  licensed  pharmacist,  etc.,  provided  the 
wholesale  dealer  affixes  to  the  bottle  or  package 
containing  the  article  sold  a  label  displaying  the 

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name  and  quantity  of  the  substance  and  the  word 
"poison,"  with  the  name  of  business  and  the 
seller  all  printed  in  red  ink.  The  wholesale 
dealer  shall,  before  delivering  any  of  the  ar- 
ticles, make  an  entry  of  the  sale  in  a  proper 
book,  giving  the  date  of  sale,  the  quantity, 
name  and  form  in  which  sold,  the  name  and 
address  of  the  purchaser,  and  the  name  of  the 
person  making  the  entry.  Said  books  to  be  open 
for  proper  inspection. 

Counc.  Pro-  COCAINE    AND    OTHER     DRUGS SALE     FOR- 

1910  ln^S  2591.  BIDDEN- — No  person  shall  sell  or  give  away  any 
morphine,  cocaine,  or  any  compound  thereof, 
etc.,  except  upon  the  written  prescription  of  a 
physician,  which  prescription  shall  contain  the 
name  and  address  of  the  person  for  whom  pre- 
scribed and  the  date  the  same  shall  have  been 
rilled,  and  shall  be  permanently  retained  on  file 
by  the  person  where  the  same  shall  have  been 
filled  and  it  shall  be  filled  but  once  and  of  it 
no  copy  shall  be  taken  and  the  original  shall  at 
all  times  be  open  to  the  inspection  of  the  pre- 
scriber,  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  and  all 
officers  of  the  law. 

The  above  does  not  apply  to  selling  at  whole- 
sale upon  the  written  order  of  the  pharmacist, 
physician,  or  dentist,  etc.  The  wholesale  dealer 
shall  keep  a  book  containing  the  names  of  pur- 
chasers, which  shall  always  be  open  for  in- 
spection. 

It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  pre- 
scribe, sell  or  offer  for  sale  any  morphine, 
cocaine  or  any  compound  thereof  to  anyone  ad- 
dicted to  the  habitual  use  of  the  same. 

Penalty :  fine  of  $50  to  $200. 

R.  M.  c.,  OPIUM    SMOKING    ROOMS. — Opium   smoking 

sec.  1473.  or  inhaling  rooms  are  forbidden.  Any  person 
guilty  of  maintaining  such  place  may  be  fined 
from  $5  to  $100  and  all  articles  and  parapher- 
nalia used  for  the  purpose  of  smoking  opium 
shall  be  confiscated. 

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CONTINUANCES  IN  COURT. 

CONTINUANCE  FOR  EVIDENCE. — A  motion  for  R.  s., 
the  continuance  of  a  case  on  account  of  the  ab-  sec.  62.' 
sence   of    material   evidence   must   be  supported 
by  an  affidavit  showing  that  due  diligence  has 
been  used  to  obtain  such  evidence  or  the  want 
of  time  to  get  it  and  of  what  particular  facts 
the  same  consists,  the  place  of  residence  of  the 
witness,   if  known,  and  that  if  further  time   is 
given  such  evidence  can  be  procured. 

IMMATERIAL     EVIDENCE  —  AFFIDAVIT     AD-  sec.  63. 
MITTED. — If  the  court  is  satisfied  that  such  evi- 
dence is  immaterial  or  if  the  other  party  will 
admit   the   affidavit   in   evidence,    the   case   shall 
not  be  postponed. 

EFFECT  OF  ADMITTING  AFFIDAVIT. — The  gec.  64. 
party  admitting  such  affidavit  admits  only  that 
if  the  absent  witness  were  present  he  would 
testify  as  alleged  in  the  affidavit;  the  statements 
in  such  affidavit  may  be  controverted  or  the 
witness  impeached  the  same  as  if  he  were  present 
and  examined  in  open  court. 

CONTINUANCE  IN  TIME  OF  WAR. — There  sees.  65 
may  be  a  continuance  of  the  case  if  the  defendant  and  66' 
is  in  the  military  service  of  the  United  States, 
or  of  this  state  in  time  of  war  or  insurrection, 
if  defendant's  appearance  is  necessary,  or  if  it 
appears,  by  affidavit  that  any  party  or  attorney 
in  the  case  is  a  member  of  the  legislature  and 
in  actual  attendance  on  the  sessions  thereof  and 
that  the  attendance  of  such  parties  or  attorney 
is  necessary  to  a  fair  and  proper  trial  of  such 
suit ;  when  a  case  is  so  continued  no  trial  or  other 
proceedings  shall  be  had  until  ten  days  after 
the  adjournment  of  the  legislature. 

CASES     EXCEPTED. — The     foregoing    section  sec.  67. 
shall  not  apply  to  applications   for  continuance 
because    of    the    absence   of    any    attorney   who 
shall  not  have  been  actually  employed  in  such 

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suit  prior  to  the  commencement  of  such  session 
of  the  general  assembly. 

CONTRIBUTING     TO     DEPENDENCY 
OR  DELINQUENCY  OF  CHILDREN. 

R  s.,  ch.  38,  PENALTY  FOR  CONTRIBUTING  TO  DEPEND- 
ENCY OF  CHILDREN — SUSPENSION  OF  SEN- 
TENCE.— Any  parent  or  parents,  or  legal  guard- 
dian  or  person  having  the  custody  of  any  de- 
pendent, neglected  or  delinquent  child,  as  de- 
fined by  the  statutes  of  this  state,  or  any  other 
person  who  shall  knowingly  or  willfully  encour- 
age, aid,  cause,  abet  or  connive  at  such  state  of 
dependency,  neglect  or  delinquency,  or  shall 
knowingly  or  willfully  do  any  act  or  acts  that 
directly  produce,  promote,  or  contribute  to  the 
conditions  which  render  such  child  a  dependent, 
neglected  or  delinquent  child  as  so  defined,  or 
who,  having  the  custody  of  such  child,  shall, 
when  able  to  do  so,  willfully  neglect  to  do  that 
which  will  directly  tend  to  prevent  such  state 
of  dependency,  neglect  or  delinquency,  or  to  re- 
move the  conditions  which  render  such  child 
either  a  neglected,  dependent  or  delinquent  child, 
as  aforesaid,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  mis- 
demeanor, and  on  conviction  thereof  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  $200,  or  by 
imprisonment  in  the  county  jail,  house  of  correc- 
tion, or  work  house,  for  not  more  than  12 
months,  or  both  by  such  fine  and  imprisonment; 
provided,  that  instead  of  imposing  the  punish- 
ment hereinbefore  provided,  the  court  shall  have 
the  power  to  enter  an  order  suspending  sentence 
and  releasing  the  defendant,  on  probation,  for 
the  space  of  one  year,  upon  his  or  her  entering 
into  a  recognizance,  with  or  without  sureties, 
in  such  sums  as  the  court  may  direct.  The  con- 
dition of  the  recognizance  shall  be  such  that  if 
the  defendant  shall  make  his  or  her  personal  ap- 
pearance in  court  whenever  ordered  to  do  so 

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within  a  year,  and  shall  provide  and  care  for 
such  dependent,  neglected  or  delinquent  child 
in  such  manner  as  to  prevent  a  continuance  or 
repetition  of  such  state  of  dependency,  neglect 
or  delinquency,  or  as  otherwise  may  be  directed 
by  the  court,  and  shall  further  comply  with 
the  terms  of  such  order,  then  the  recognizance 
shall  be  void,  otherwise  of  full  force  and  effect. 
If  the  court  be  satisfied,  by  information  and  due 
proof  under  oath,  that  at  any  time  during  the 
year  the  defendant  has  violated  the  terms  of  such 
order,  it  may  forthwith  revoke  such  order  and 
sentence  him  or  her  under  the  original  convic- 
tion. Unless  so  sentenced,  the  defendant  shall, 
at  the  end  of  such  year,  be  discharged,  and  such 
conviction  shall  be  void. 

CRIMES  AGAINST  CHILDREN. 

PENALTY  FOR  CRIMES  AGAINST  CHILDREN. —  R.  s.,  ch.  38, 
Any  person  1 7  years  of  age  or  older  who  takes  sec'  42ha" 
or  attempts  to  take  any  immoral,  improper  or 
indecent  liberties  with  any  child  of  either  sex 
under  the  age  of  15  years  with  the  intent  of 
arousing,  appealing  to  or  gratifying  the  lust  or 
passions  or  sexual  desires  of  either  such  person 
or  such  child,  or  who  shall  commit  or  attempt 
to  commit  any  lewd  or  lascivious  acts  upon  the 
body  of  such  child,  with  aforesaid  intent,  or 
any  person  who  shall  entice,  allure  or  persuade 
any  such  child  to  any  place  whatever  for  the 
purpose  of  taking  any  such  immoral  or  indecent 
liberties,  shall  be  imprisoned  in  the  penitentiary 
not  less  than  one  nor  more  than  twenty  years. 
Act  does  not  apply  to  offenses  constituting  incest, 
rape,  seduction,  sodomy,  or  other  infamous 
crimes. 

CRIME    AGAINST    NATURE. — The   infamous  R.  3.,  Ch.  38. 
crime  against  nature,  either  with  man  or  beast,   sec-  47- 
is  punishable  with  imprisonment  in  the  peniten- 
tiary for  not  more  than  ten  years. 

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CRIMES— DEFINITIONS. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,         FELONY. — A  felony  is  an  offense  punishable 
with  death  or  imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary. 

Sec.  278.  MISDEMEANOR. — Every  other  offense  is  a  mis- 

demeanor. 

Sec.  280.  WHAT  CONSTITUTES  AN  OFFENSE. — In  the 

commission  of  a  criminal  offense  there  is  the 
joint  operation  of  act  and  intention,  or  criminal 
negligence. 

s«c.  274.  ACCESSORY    BEFORE    THE    FACT. — He    who 

stands  by  and  aids,  or  not  being  present,  aid- 
ing, hath  advised,  encouraged  or  abetted  the 
perpetration  of  a  crime,  is  an  accessory  before 
the  fact  and  punishable  as  a  principal. 

Sec.  276.  ACCESSORY  AFTER  THE  FACT. — Every  person 

not  standing  in  the  relation  of  husband  or  wife, 
parent  or  child,  brother  or  sister  who  knows 
the  fact  and  conceals  it,  or  who  harbors  the 
principal,  is  an  accessory  after  the  fact,  and 
punishable  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  one 
year,  or  fine  not  exceeding  $200. 

sec.  273.  ATTEMPT  TO  COMMIT  AN  OFFENSE. — Who- 

ever attempts  to  commit  an  offense  prohibited 
by  law  and  does  any  act  towards  it,  but  fails 
or  is  intercepted  or  prevented  in  its  execution, 
where  no  express  provision  is  made  by  law  for 
the  punishment  of  such  attempt,  shall  be  pun- 
ished when  the  offense  thus  attempted  is  a 
felony,  by  imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary  from 
one  to  five  years;  in  all  other  cases  by  fine  not 
exceeding  $300,  or  by  confinement  in  the  county 
jail  not  exceeding  six  months. 

CRIMES— WHO  NOT  GUILTY. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,         INFANT. — An   infant  under  the  age    of     10 
sec.  283.  years  shall   not   be   found    guilty  of   any   crime 

or  misdemeanor. 

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INSANITY. — An   insane   person  without  lucid  sec.  284. 
intervals  shall  not  be  found  guilty  of  any  crime 
with  which  he  may  be  charged. 

IDIOCY. — An  idiot  shall  not  be  guilty  of  any  Sec.  286. 
crime  with  which  he  may  be  charged. 

COUNSELING  INFANT  OR  IDIOT  TO  COMMIT  sec.  287. 
CRIME. — Any    person    encouraging    an     infant 
under  the  age  of  ten  years  or  an  idiot  to  commit 
an  offense    shall  be  prosecuted  for  such  offense 
as  a  principal. 

CRUELTY  TO  CHILDREN. 

CRUELTY  TO  CHILDREN  AND  OTHERS. — Any  R>  S-(  ch.  38i 
person   willfully   and   unnecessarily   exposing   to  sec-  53- 
the  inclemency  of  the  weather,  or  injuring  the 
health  of  any  child  under  his  or  her  legal  con- 
trol,  is  punishable  by  fine  not  exceeding  $500, 
or  imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary  not  exceed- 
ing five  years.      (See  also  Sec.  420",  p.  26,  and 
Sec.  1448,  p.  33.  supra.) 

CUSTODY    AND     SUPPORT    OF 
CHILDREN. 

DIVORCE — CUSTODY  OF  CHILDREN. — During  R.  s.,  ch.  40, 
the  pendency  of   a  divorce  suit,  on  application  sec- 13- 
of  either  party  the  court  may  enter  such  order 
concerning  the   custody   of   the   minor   children 
as  may  be  deemed  for  the  benefit  of  the  children. 

CUSTODY  AND  SUPPORT  OF  CHILDREN. —  sec.  is. 
After  a  decree  of  divorce,  the  court  may  make 
such  order  touching  the  maintenance,  care,  cus- 
tody and  support  of  the  children  concerned  as 
shall  be  fit,  reasonable  and  just.  Decree  may 
be  altered  at  any  time,  if  advisable. 

CUSTODY    OF    CHILDREN. — If    the    husband  R.  s.,  ch.  68, 
abandons  the  wife  she  is  entitled  to  the  custody  sec'     ' 
of   the  minor  children  unless    the    court    shall 
otherwise  direct.     They  cannot  be  deprived  im- 
properly of  their  homestead. 

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R.  s.,  ch.  3.  ALLOWANCE  TO  CHILDREN. — Whenever  a 
housekeeper  or  the  head  of  the  family  dies  leav- 
ing no  widow  or  husband  surviving,  but  leaving 
children,  there  should  be  allowed  to  the  children 
of  the  deceased  residing  with  him  or  her  at  the 
time  of  death  the  amount  of  property  and  money 
which  the  law  provides  should  be  allowed  to 
the  widow  for  herself  and  children,  which  shall 
not  be  less  than  $500  for  the  widow  and  an 
additional  sum,  not  to  exceed  $200,  for  each 
minor  child  under  18  years  at  the  time  of  the 
death  of  such  person.  Personal  property  may  be 
taken  in  lieu  of  the  money. 

R.  s.,  ch.  68,  EXPENSES  OF  FAMILY.  —  The  expenses  of 
the  family  and  of  the  education  of  the  children 
shall  be  chargeable  upon  the  property  of  both 
husband  and  wife,  or  of  either  of  them,  in  favor 
of  the  creditors  thereof,  and  they  may  be  sued 
jointly  or  separately. 

DISORDERLY  CONDUCT. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,         PUNISHMENT. — Whoever  shall  be  guilty  of 

sec.  55.  open  lewdness,  disorderly  conduct  or  other 

notorious  act  of  public  indecency,  tending  to 
debauch  the  public  morals,  shall  be  fined  not  ex- 
ceeding $200. 

sec.  56.  DISTURBING  THE  PEACE. — Whoever  wilfully 

disturbs  the  peace  and  quiet  of  a  neighborhood 
or  family  by  loud  or  unusual  noises,  threatening, 
quarreling,  fighting,  or  in  any  other  manner,  or 
whoever  shall  carry  concealed  weapons,  or  dis- 
play any  deadly  weapon  in  a  threatening  man- 
ner, shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  $100. 

R.  M.  c.,  DISORDERLY  CONDUCT. — All  persons  who 

shall  make,  aid,  countenance  or  assist  in  mak- 
ing any  improper  noise,  riot,  disturbance,  breach 
of  the  peace  or  diversion  tending  to  a  breach  of 
the  peace ;  all  persons  who  shall  collect  in  crowds 
for  unlawful  purposes  or  for  any  purpose  to 
the  annoyance  and  disturbance  of  other  per- 

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sons;  all  persons  who  are  idle  and  dissolute  and 

go  about  begging; all    persons    who    are 

found  in  houses  of  ill  fame  or  gaming  houses; 
all  persons  lodging  in  or  found  in  out-houses, 
sheds,  etc.,  or  unoccupied  buildings,  or  under- 
neath sidewalks,  or  lodging  in  open  air  and  not 
giving  good  account  of  themselves ; all  per- 
sons who  shall  engage  in  any  fraudulent  scheme, 
device  or  trick  to  obtain  money  or  other  valuable 
thing,  or  who  shall  aid  or  abet  or  in  any  man- 
ner be  concerned  therein ; all  persons 

found  loitering  about  in  any  hotel,  block,  bar 
room,  dram  shop,  gambling  house  or  disorderly 
house  or  wandering  about  the  streets  without 
any  known  lawful  means  of  support  or  without 
being  able  to  give  a  satisfactory  account  of  them- 
selves; all  persons  carrying  deadly  weapons  or 
known  to  be  thieves  or  criminals  who  are  found 
lounging  in  or  prowling  or  loitering  around  any 
railroad  depot,  place  of  amusement,  auction 
room,  hotel,  store,  shop,  public  conveyance,  pub- 
lic gathering,  court  room,  or  any  public  place 
and  who  are  unable  to  give  a  reasonable  excuse 
for  being  so  found,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of 
disorderly  conduct.  Penalty:  fine  of  $100  to 
$200. 

EMPLOYMENT  AGENCIES. 

CREATION  OF  FREE  EMPLOYMENT  OFFICES.  R.  s.(  ch.  48, 
— Section  provides  for  the  creation  of  free  em-  sec-  53- 
ployment  offices. 

No  FEE  TO  BE  CHARGED  PERSON  APPLYING  sec.  59. 
FOR  EMPLOYMENT. — No  fee  shall  be  charged  a 
person  applying  for  employment  through  free 
employment  offices,  and  any  superintendent  or 
clerk  who  shall  accept  same  from  any  applicant 
shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  be 
fined  not  less  than  $25,  nor  more  than  $50,  and 
imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  not  more  than  30 
days. 

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Session  PRIVATE    EMPLOYMENT    AGENCIES. No    per- 

I909r.8p.°2i3.  son  shall  open  or  carry  on  any  employment 
agency  without  having  procured  a  license.  Per- 
sons so  doing  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 
Penalty:  fine  of  $50  to  $200,  or,  on  failure  to 
pay  the  fine,  imprisonment  for  not  more  than 
six  months,  or  both,  at  the  discretion  of  the 
court. 

Every  license  shall  contain  the  name  and 
street  address  of  the  person  licensed  and  date 
of  issue.  No  such  agency  shall  be  located  on 
premises  where  intoxicating  liquors  are  sold, 
except  restaurants  in  office  buildings.  Licenses 
shall  run  for  one  year  unless  sooner  revoked. 

P.  214.  BOND. — Persons  procuring  licenses  must  give 

bond.  Any  person  aggrieved  by  the  misconduct 
of  any  such  licensed  person  may  maintain  action 
upon  the  bond  of  the  employment  agency  in  any 
court  having  jurisdiction  of  the  amount  claimed. 

p.  215.  REGISTER. — Every  such  licensed   person   shall 

keep  a  register  in  which  shall  be  entered  the 
dates  of  accepted  applications  for  employment, 
name  and  address  of  the  applicant  to  whom 
employment  is  offered  or  promised,  and  also  of 
the  person  to  whom  applicant  is  sent  for  em- 
ployment, and  amount  of  the  fee  received.  In- 
formation as  to  applications  for  help  shall  be 
entered  in  a  different  book. 

P.  215.  FEES. — A  registration  fee,  not  to  exceed  $2, 

may  be  charged,  for  which  a  receipt  must  be 
given  showing  name  of  applicant,  date  of  pay- 
ment and  character  of  position  or  help  applied 
for.  Such  fee  shall  be  returned  to  any  applicant 
after  thirty  and  within  sixty  days  from  date 
of  receipt,  less  the  amount  actually  expended 
by  the  agency,  for  which  an  itemized  account 
must  be  presented  to  the  applicant  upon  re- 
quest, if  no  position  has  been  furnished  to  the 
applicant.  A  further  fee,  which  may  be  agreed 
upon  between  the  applicant  and  the  agency,  pay- 

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able  at  a  time  agreed  upon  in  writing,  may  be 
received  by  the  agency  before  a  position  has 
been  tendered  to  the  applicant,  but  if  the  posi- 
tion so  tendered  is  not  accepted  by  or  given 
such  applicant,  such  fee,  upon  request,  shall  be 
refunded  within  three  days  after  demand.  Re- 
ceipt must  be  given  for  this  additional  fee.  If 
an  employee  is  discharged  within  one  week  with- 
out his  fault,  another  position  shall  be  furnished 
or  three-fifths  of  the  fees  paid  by  him  returned. 
Any  agency  sending  persons  as  contract  laborers 
out  of  the  city  shall  give  such  persons  cards  on 
which  is  written  in  a  languauge  with  which 
such  laborers  are  familiar,  the  following:  name 
and  address  of  the  employer,  nature  of  the  work 
to  be  performed,  wages  offered,  destination  of  the 
person  employed,  terms  of  transportation  and 
probable  duration  of  employment. 

CHARACTER  OF  EMPLOYMENT — PLACES  OF  p.  216. 
ILL  FAME. — No  agency  shall  send  any  female 
help  or  servants  or  inmate  or  performer  to  any 
questionable  place  or  place  of  bad  repute,  house 
of  ill  fame,  or  to  any  place  of  amusement  kept 
for  immoral  purposes,  the  character  of  which 
such  licensed  person  knows,  either  actually  or 
by  reputation. 

EMPLOYMENT  FOR  CHILDREN. — No  licensed  P.  217. 
person  shall  accept  any  application  made  by  or 
on  behalf  of  any  child  or  shall  place  any  child 
in  violation  of  the  child  labor  law.  Penalty  for 
above,  fine  of  from  $50  to  $200,  or  imprison- 
ment for  not  more  than  one  year,  or  both,  and 
the  revocation  of  the  license. 

ENFORCEMENT. — This   act  shall  be  enforced  p.  218 
by  the  State  Board  of  Commissioners  of  Labor 
and  the  Chief  Inspector  of  Private  Employment 
Agencies. 

EXECUTOR. 

MINOR   MAY   BE   EXECUTOR. — A   person   of  R-  s.,  ch.  3, 
the  age  of  17  years,  of  sound  mind  and  memory,  sec>   ' 

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may  be  appointed  executor.  But  such  person 
cannot  serve  in  such  capacity  during  his  minority. 

EXPLOSIVES. 

Amend,  to  EXPLOSIVES — SALE  TO  MlNORS  FORBIDDEN. — 

i^  226  ° '  ^  is  un^wful  to  sell  any  kind  of  dangerous  ex- 
plosives to  minors  under  18  years  of  age.  Pen- 
alty :  fine  of  from  $50  to  $200. 

EXTRADITION. 

R.  s.,  ch.  GO,  FUGITIVES  FROM  THIS  STATE — WARRANT. — 
Whenever  the  executive  of  this  state  shall  de- 
mand a  fugitive  from  justice  from  any  other  state 
he  shall  issue  his  warrant  to  some  messenger, 
commanding  him  to  receive  the  fugitive  and  con- 
vey him  to  the  sheriff  of  the  county  where  the 
offense  was  committed. 

Sec.  9.  MANNER  OF  APPLYING  FOR  REQUISITION. — 

Application  to  the  governor  for  requisition  for 
the  return  of  a  fugitive  from  justice  shall  be  by 
petition  in  which  shall  be  stated  the  name  of  the 
fugitive  and  the  crime  charged,  the  county  in 
which  the  crime  is  alleged  to  have  been  com- 
mitted, the  time  when  fugitive  fled,  the  state  to 
which  he  has  fled,  giving  facts  and  circumstances 
tending  to  thow  the  whereabouts  of  the  fugitive 
at  the  time  of  the  application.  Petition  must  be 
verified  by  affidavit  and  have  endorsed  on  it  the 
certificate  of  the  judge  of  the  county  court  where 
the  crime  is  alleged  to  have  been  committed,  that 
the  ends  of  justice  require  the  return  of  such 
fugitive. 

Sec  n  EXPENSES  OF  REQUISITION. — When  the  pun- 

.  ishment  of  a  crime  shall  be  confinement  in  the 
penitentiary  the  expense  shall  be  paid  out  of  the 
state  treasury  on  the  certificate  of  the  governor 
and  the  warrant  of  the  auditor;  in  all  other 
cases  it  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  county  treasury 
of  the  county  where  the  crime  is  alleged  to  have 

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been  committed.  The  expenses  shall  be  the  fees 
paid  to  the  officers  of  the  state  on  whose  gov- 
ernor the  requisition  is  made  and  not  exceeding 
twelve  cents  per  mile  for  all  necessary  traveling 
in  returning  such  fugitive.  Such  accounts  must 
be  verified  by  affidavit  and  certified  to  by  the 
judge  of  the  county  court  before  they  shall  be 
certified  by  the  governor  or  paid  by  the  county. 

FIREWORKS. 

FIREWORKS. — No  fireworks,  firecrackers,  tor-  counc.  Pro- 
pedoes,  etc.,  or  other  thing  containing  any  sub-  ifo^pfjjs'gg 
stance  of  an  explosive  nature  intended  to  be  used 
as  fireworks  shall  be  discharged  within  the  city 
except  on  the  Fourth  of  July ;  provided,  however, 
that  pyrotechnic  displays  of  fireworks  may  be  per- 
mitted under  a  license.     Penalty:  fine  of  $5  to 
$200. 

FLIPPING  CARS. 

FLIPPING  CARS. — No  minor  under   18  years  R.  M.  c., 
of  age  shall  climb  upon  or  cling  to  any  street  car  sec- 1437- 
or  railroad  car  of  any  kind  while  the  same  is  in 
motion,  under  a  penalty  of  from  $2  to  $10. 

FRUIT  STORES  AND  ICE  CREAM 
PARLORS. 


FRUIT  STORES  AND  ICE  CREAM  PARLORS  TO 
BE  LICENSED. — No  one  shall  keep  or  manage 
a  retail  fruit  store  or  ice  cream  parlor  without  a 
license. 

All  applicants  for  such  licenses  shall  furnish 
bond  conditioned  that  they  will  faithfully  ob- 
serve and  obey  all  laws  of  the  state  and  ordi- 
nances of  the  city.  Every  such  place  shall  be 
open  to  inspection  by  the  probation  officers  at  all 
times  it  is  open  for  business. 

It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  owning, 
conducting  or  managing  a  retail  fruit  store  or 
ice  cream  parlor  to  allow  any  male  person  under 

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Amend,  to 
R.  M.  C., 
p.  121. 


the  age  of  21  or  any  female  person  under  the  age 
of  1 8  to  be  or  remain  in  such  place  between  the 
hours  of  10  p.  m.  and  7  a.  m.,  unless  accom- 
panied Ey  one  or  both  parents;  or  to  maintain 
or  to  have  any  curtains  or  screens  or  partitions 
of  any  kind  that  will  serve  to  divide  such  place 
into  small  rooms  or  compartments.  Penalty: 
fine  of  from  $5  to  $100  for  each  offense. 

GAMING. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38.        PLAYING  CARDS,  ETC.,  IN  SALOONS  BY  MIN- 
sec.  eia.  QRS — ^yj    saloons    where    intoxicating    liquors 

are  sold,  in  which  minors  are  permitted  to  play 
with  cards,  dice,  etc.,  are  hereby  declared  to  be 
disorderly  houses.  Every  keeper  of  such  saloon 
shall,  for  the  first  offense,  be  fined  not  exceeding 
$50;  for  any  subsequent  offense,  not  exceeding 
$100,  or  such  person  shall  be  imprisoned  not 
exceeding  30  days  for  first  offense  and  60  days 
for  any  subsequent  offense. 

Sec.  126.  GAMING. — Whoever  shall  play  for  money  or 

other  valuable  thing,  at  any  game  with  cards, 
dice,  checks,  or  at  billiards,  or  with  any  other 
article,  instrument,  or  thing  whatsoever,  which 
may  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  betting  upon,  or 
shall  bet  on  any  game  others  may  be  playing, 
shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  $100,  and  not  less 
than  $10. 

Counc.  Pro-  GAMBLING  PROHIBITED. — No  person  shall  en- 
SaSe  m  gambling  for  money  or  other  valuable 
thing  either  as  keeper,  dealer  or  player,  etc.,  un- 
der a  penalty  of  not  to  exceed  $200. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,         GAMING  HOUSE. — It  is  unlawful  for  anyone 
sec.  127.  to   jceep   a   gajjjjng   house   or   to   procure  or   to 

permit  persons  to  play  for  money  in  a  building, 
etc.,  occupied  by  him,  or  to  keep  apparatus  for 
gambling  purposes,  or  to  rent  premises  for  gamb- 
ling purposes.  Penalty:  first  offense,  fine  of  not 
less  than  $100;  second  offense,  fine  of  not  less 
than  $500  and  confinement  in  county  jail  for  not 

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less  than  six  months ;  third  offense,  fine  of  not  less 
than  $500  and  imprisonment  in  penitentiary  for 
not  less  than  two  years  nor  more  than  five  years. 

GAMING  IN  TAVERN. — It  shall  be  unlawful  sec.  123. 
for  a  tavern  keeper    or  victualer  to  carry  on  or 
allow  to  be  carried  on  gambling  of  any  kind,  for 
the   purpose   of   amusement   or   otherwise,    upon 
premises  occupied  by  him. 

GAMBLING    PLACES. — Every   house   or    place  R.  M.  c., 
kept  for  gambling  purposes  is  hereby  declared  to  sec-  905' 
be  a  common  nuisance.    Every  person  conducting 
such  a  place  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $25  nor 
more  than  $200  for  each  offense. 

DUTY  OF   POLICE. — The  police  shall  give  in-   sec.  DOT. 
formation  to  the  mayor  of  all  gambling  found 
and  shall  suppress  gambling  so  far  as  possible. 

ILL-GOVERNED    PLACES. — Every   common    or  R.  M.  c., 
ill-governed  house  kept  by  any  person  licensed   sec- 1344- 
under  this  article  where  any  game  of  chance  is 
permitted   is  hereby  declarej  a  public  nuisance. 
Penalty:  $5  to  $100  fine. 

REVOCATION. — The   mayor    may   revoke    any  Sec.  1345. 
license   granted   under   this   article   whenever   it 
shall  appear  to  his  satisfaction  that  the  licensee 
has  violated  the  ordinance  or  any  condition  of 
his  bond. 

GAMBLING  IN  SALOONS. — Minors  that  gamble  R.  M.  c., 
in  saloons  shall  be  fined  not  more  than  $100  for  sec' 1435- 
each  offense. 

PROHIBITS  USE  OF  SLOT  MACHINES,  ETC. —  fe<?iyjt' 38> 
Whoever  in  any  room,  saloon,  building,  etc., 
operates,  keeps,  owns,  rents,  or  uses  any  slot  ma- 
chine, clock,  etc.,  upon  which  money  is  staked 
or  hazarded,  or  into  which  money  is  paid  or 
played  upon  chance,  or  upon  the  results  of  the 
action  of  which,  money  or  other  valuable  thing 
is  staked,  bet,  etc.,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than 
$100  for  a  first  offense,  and  for  second  offense 
not  less  than  $500  and  confined  in  county  jail 

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for  not  less  than  six  months,  and  for  third  of- 
fense shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $500  and  im- 
prisoned in  penitentiary  not  less  than  two  nor 
more  than  four  years. 

Sec.  i37g.  DECLARED  A  GAMBLING  DEVICE — CONFISCA- 

TION.— Every  such  slot  machine,  clock,  etc.,  is 
hereby  declared  a  gambling  device  and  shall  be 
subject  to  seizure,  confiscation  and  destruction,  by 
any  municipal  authority. 

sec.  i3?h.  PENALTY    FOR    HAVING    IN    POSSESSION. — 

Every  owner,  occupant,  lessee  or  other  person  in 
possession  of  premises  where  gambling  devices  are 
located,  is  subject  to  criminal  process. 

R.  M.  c..  SLOT    MACHINES    PROHIBITED. — No    person 

sh<tll  keep,  own  or  operate  upon  any  premises  or 
any  part  thereof  any  clock,  "joker,"  tape  or  slot 
machine  or  other  device  of  any  kind  whatsoever 
upon,  in  or  by  or  through  which  money  is  staked 
or  hazarded.  Penalty  for  violation  of  this  act, 
fine  of  not  less  than  $25  nor  more  than  $200. 
Every  day  on  which  any  such  machine  may  be 
operated  constitutes  a  separate  and  distinct  of- 
fense. 

sec.  913.  LOTTERY  AND  POLICY  SHOPS  PROHIBITED. — 

This  section  forbids  any  kind  of  lottery  or  policy 
drawing  in  which  there  is  an  element  of  chance. 

GUARDIAN  AND  WARD. 

R.  s.,  ch.  64,  GUARDIAN  AND  WARD — WHO  MINORS. — 
Males  of  the  age  of  21  and  females  of  the  age  of 
1 8  years  shall  be  considered  of  full  age  for  all 
purposes. 

Sec.  3.  NOMINATION. — If  a  minor  is  under  the  age 

of  14  years  the  County  Court  may  nominate  and 
appoint  his  guardian.  If  he  is  above  that  age  he 
may  nominate  his  own  guardian. 

Sec.  4.  CUSTODY. — The  guardian  of  a  minor  shall 

have,  under  the  direction  of  the  court,  the  custody, 
nurture  and  tuition  of  his  ward  and  the  care  and 

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management  of  his  estate;  but  the  parents,  or 
surviving  parent,  of  the  minor,  if  fit  persons,  and 
competent  to  transact  their  own  business,  shall  be 
entitled  to  the  custody  of  the  person  of  the  minor 
and  the  direction  of  his  education.  If  father  and 
mother  live  apart  the  court  may  award  the  cus- 
tody and  education  to  either  parent  or  some  other 
person. 

TESTAMENTARY  GUARDIAN. — The  father,  be-  sec.  5. 
ing  of  sound  mind  and  memory,  of  a  child  to  be 
born,  or  of  any  living  child,  may,  by  his  last  will, 
dispose  of  the  custody  and  tuition  of  such  child 
during  its  minority  or  for  a  less  time.  Provided, 
that  the  mother  may  not  be  deprived  of  her  right 
to  the  custody  of  such  child.  The  mother,  if  sole, 
or  surviving  the  father,  may  in  like  manner  dis- 
pose of  the  custody  of  the  child. 

ESTATE. — The    guardianship    of    the   infant's  Sec.  6. 
estate  may  be  appointed  to  one  and  the  custody  of 
the  minor  to  another. 

EDUCATION  OF  WARD. — The  guardian  shall  Sec.  to. 
educate  his  ward. 

WARD  PUT  OUT  AND  EDUCATED. — Where  the  sec.  21. 
guardian  does  not  see  to  it  that  the  ward  is  taught 
to  read  and  write,  and  the  elementary  rules  of 
arithmetic,  the  court  may  put  the  ward  out  to 
some  other  person  for  the  purpose  of  having  him 
so  educated. 

MARRIAGE  OF  FEMALE  WARD. — The  marriage  sec.  41. 
of  a  female  ward  shall  discharge  the  guardian 
from  all  right  to  her  custody  and  education,  but 
not  to  her  property. 

PUBLIC  ADMINISTRATOR. — Sections  provide  for  R.  s.,  ch.  3, 
the   appointment  of  a  public   administrator   for  sec>  44~50- 
each  county.     Whenever  any  person   dies,   pos- 
sessed  of   any   real   estate  within   this   state   or 
having  any  interest  therein,  has  no  relative  or 
creditor  within   this  state  who  will   administer 
upon  such  estate,  then  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  a 

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public  administrator  upon  appointment  by  the 
County  Court  to  administer  such  estate. 

HABEAS  CORPUS. 

R.  s.,  ch.  es,        HABEAS  CORPUS. — WHO  MAY  PROSECUTE. — 
!ec'   '  Every  person  imprisoned  or  otherwise  restrained 

of  his  liberty,  except  as  is  otherwise  provided  by 
law,  may  prosecute  a  writ  of  habeas  corpus  to 
obtain  relief  from  such  imprisonment  or  restraint 
if  it  prove  to  be  unlawful. 

HAND  ORGANS. 

R.  M.  c.,  THE  USE  OF  HAND  ORGAN  OR  OTHER  MU- 

SICAL INSTRUMENT. — The  use  of  hand  organ 
or  other  musical  instrument  for  pay  in  the  streets 
or  public  places  before  9  o'clock  a.  m.  or  after 
9  o'clock  p.  m.  is  forbidden.  Penalty:  fine  of 
$10  to  $25. 

HEALTH. 

R.  M.  c.,  DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH — SUPERVISION  OF 

HEALTH  COMMISSIONER. — Commissioner  shall 
have  and  exercise  a  general  supervision  over  the 
health  and  sanitary  conditions  of  the  city. 

Sec.  1029.  DUTIES  OF  HEALTH  COMMISSIONER. — It  shall 

be  the  duty  of  the  said  commissioner  to  enforce 
all  the  laws  of  the  state  and  ordinances  of  the 
city  and  all  rules  and  regulations  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Health  in  relation  to  the  sanitary  condi- 
tion of  the  city  and  cause  all  nuisances  to  be 
abated  with  all  reasonable  promptness. 

sec.  loeo.  IMPROPER  USE  OF  BUILDINGS  FORBIDDEN. — 

No  person  shall  cause  or  allow  any  matter  or 
thing  to  be  or  to  be  done  in  or  about  any  building 
dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  health.  The  com- 
missioner of  health  may  inspect  any  building  at 
any  time. 

sec.  loei.  LEASING  UNSANITARY  BUILDING. — No  person 

in   possession   or   control   of   any  building  shall 

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lease  any  portion  thereof  or  allow  the  same  to  be 
occupied  as  a  dwelling  or  lodging  house  unless 
such  premises  are  in  a  clean  and  wholesome 
condition  as  provided  in  this  article. 

ROOFS — DRAINAGE. — Roofs    must    not    leak.   sec.  ices. 
Rainwater  must  not  drip  on  the  ground  so  as  to 
cause  dampness  in  the  walls  or  yard. 

UNSANITARY  BUILDING  —  NUISANCE. —  Any  sec.  i065. 
premises  which  by  reason  of  unsanitary  condition 
or  infection  with  disease  are  unfit  for  human 
habitation  or  which  are  a  source  of  sickness  or 
which  endanger  the  public  health  are  hereby  de- 
clared to  constitute  a  public  nuisance. 

CLEANLINESS. — Every  owner,  lessee,  tenant  or  sec.  loes. 
manager  of  any  tenement  house,  lodging  house, 
boarding  house  or  manufactory  shall  cause  every 
part  thereof  to  be  put  and  to  be  kept  in  a  clean 
and  wholesome  condition,  and  shall  speedily  cause 
every  apartment  in  which  any  person  shall  sleep, 
dwell  or  work  to  be  adequately  lighted  and  ven- 
tilated. 

CELLAR  OR  UNVENTILATED  PLACE. — No  per-  sec.  1069. 
son  having  the  right  and  power  to  prevent  the 
same  shall  knowingly  cause  or  permit  any  person 
to  sleep  or  remain  in  any  cellar  or  in  any  place 
dangerous  or  prejudicial  to  health,  because  of 
want  of  ventilation  or  drainage  or  because  of  the 
presence  of  any  poisonous,  noxious  or  offensive 
substance  or  otherwise. 

INFANTS    HAVING    INFLAMED    EYES. — Mid-  R-  s--<J.h- 38- 

...  .  .        sec.  510. 

wives  or  nurses  noticing  that  infants  have  in- 
flamed or  reddened  eyes  at  any  time  within  two 
weeks  after  birth  must  report  such  condition 
within  six  hours  to  a  health  officer  or  doctor. 
Penalty  for  not  doing  so,  fine  not  to  exceed  $100 
or  imprisonment  not  to  exceed  six  months. 

CONTAGIOUS  DISEASES,  RULES  OF  DEPART-  sup.  in  to 
MENT  OF  HEALTH  CONCERNING. — There  follow  p.' 245-%6. 
90  different  rules  in  regard  to  the  duty  of  phy- 
sicians and  others  as  to  contagious  diseases,  isola- 

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tion,  milkmen,  grocerymen  and  laundrymen 
going  to  houses  where  there  are  contagious 
diseases,  disinfection  and  termination  of  cases, 
antitoxin,  tuberculosis,  typhoid  fever,  contagious 
diseases  in  schools,  vaccination  and  epidemics. 
^M1?10  ANTITOXIN — FREE  TREATMENT. — The  corn- 

sec,  loss.  missioner  of  health  shall  at  all  times  keep 
antitoxin  for  the  treatment  of  any  dependent  or 
deserving  person  who  may  apply  for  that  pur- 
pose, and  he  shall  without  charge  treat  with  anti- 
toxin all  such  persons  applying  who  in  his  opin- 
ion require  such  treatment. 

R.  s.,  DUTY  OF  PHYSICIANS  TO  REPORT  BIRTHS. — 

sec.  I9.a>  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  physician  and  mid- 

wife in  the  state  who  attends  the  birth  of  a  child 
to  make  a  report  of  such  birth,  with  the  name  of 
the  child  and  such  other  information  as  may  be 
required  by  the  State  Board  of  Health,  within 
30  days  after  its  occurrence,  in  writing,  to  the 
county  clerk;  provided,  that  in  cities  of  50,000 
or  more  inhabitants  reports  may  be  made  to  the 
city  commissioner  of  health  instead  of  to  the 
county  clerk. 

sec.  22.  DUTY  OF  PHYSICIANS  TO  REPORT  DEATHS. — 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  physician  or  mid- 
wife practicing  in  the  state  of  Illinois  to  report,  in 
writing,  to  the  State  Board  of  Health  at  Spring- 
field the  death  of  any  of  his  or  her  patients  within 
30  days  after  the  date  of  such  death;  provided, 
that  no  such  report  need  be  made  in  cities  the 
ordinances  of  which  require  the  issuance  of  burial 
or  removal  permits,  which  shall  not  be  issued, 
however,  before  a  report  or  certificate  of  the 
death  shall  be  presented  to  the  proper  official. 

sec.  23.  DUTY  OF  CORONER  TO  REPORT  DEATH. — The 

coroner  must  report  deaths  in  the  manner  pro- 
vided in  the  foregoing  section  and  subject  to  the 
same  conditions. 

Sec.  31.  PENALTY. — Anyone  violating  any  of  the  pro- 

visions of  this  act  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a 

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misdemeanor  and  shall  be  fined  from  $10  to  $IOO 
or  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  not  to  exceed  30 
days,  or  shall  suffer  both  such  fine  and  imprison- 
ment. 

BOARDS  OF  HEALTH  IN  COUNTIES. — Provides  R.  s.,  ch.  34. 
for  boards  of  health  in  counties,  which  boards  sec< 
shall  make  and  enforce  proper  rules  and  regula- 
tions whenever  there  is  a  breaking  out  of  any 
dangerously  communicable  diseases;  they  shall 
also  have  the  power  of  quarantine.  Such  boards 
shall  have  power  to  do  all  acts  and  make  all 
regulations  which  may  be  necessary  or  expedient 
for  the  promotion  of  health  or  the  suppression  of 
disease ;  also  to  provide  gratuitous  vaccination  and 
disinfection. 

HOME   FOR  JUVENILE   FEMALE   OF- 
FENDERS. 

ESTABLISHMENT  OF  HOME. — Authorizes  the  R.  s.,  ch.  23, 
establishment  and  maintenance  of  a  "State  Home  sec-  218- 
for  Juvenile  Offenders,"  the  object  of  which  shall 
be  to  provide  for  the  maintenance,  discipline  and 
reformation  of  such  girls  as  may  be  committed 
thereto  as  hereinafter  provided. 

N.  B. — This  home  is  at  Geneva,  111. 

CONVICTION  AND  SENTENCE. — Any  girl  be-  sec.  231. 
tween  the  ages  of  10  and  18  years  who  has  been 
convicted  of  any  offense  which,  if  committed  by 
an  adult,  is  punishable  by  confinement  in  the 
house  of  correction,  county  jail  or  penitentiary, 
may  be  committed  to  the  State  Home  for  Juvenile 
Offenders  for  not  less  than  one  year  or  beyond 
the  age  of  21  years.  The  court  has  discretion, 
however,  to  send  such  offender  to  the  county  jail 
or  house  of  correction. 

PETITION — COMMITMENT. — Provides   for  the  sec.  232 
trial  in  a  court  of  record,  by  a  jury  of  six  persons, 
of  any  girl  where  a  petition  has  been  filed  setting 
forth  the  offense  charged  against  her  or  that  she 
is  a  vagrant  or  without  a  proper  home  or  means 

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of  subsistence  or  lives  with  or  frequents  the  com- 
pany of  reputed  thieves  or  other  vicious  persons, 
or  is  or  has  been  in  a  house  of  ill  fame,  prison  or 
workhouse,  or  setting  forth  any  other  facts  of  a 
similar  nature.  For  purposes  of  convenience  the 
state  reformatory,  in  all  legal  proceedings  and 
papers  of  any  kind,  may  be  designated  "State 
Training  School  for  Girls." 

No  IMBECILE  ADMITTED. — No  imbelice  or 
idiotic  girl  shall  be  committed  to  the  home. 

DISCHARGE  BY  GOVERNOR  OR  TRUSTEES. — 
Any  girl  may  be  discharged  at  any  time  by  the 
governor  or  trustees  when  in  their  judgment  the 
good  of  the  girl,  or  the  good  of  the  home,  will  be 
promoted  by  such  discharge. 

GOOD  BEHAVIOR  TO  BE  CREDITED. — Any  girl 
committed  to  the  home,  by  good  behavior,  shall 
earn  and  be  credited  with  time  as  follows:  each 
month  in  the  first  year,  five  days;  each  month 
in  the  second  year,  six  days;  each  month  in  the 
third  year,  seven  days;  each  month  in  the  fourth 
year,  eight  days;  each  month  thereafter,  nine 
days.  For  misconduct  or  violation  of  the  rules 
of  the  home  a  girl  shall  be  liable  to  forfeit  five 
days  of  the  good  time  placed  to  her  credit.  Every 
girl  shall  be  released  from  the  home  as  many 
days  before  the  expiration  of  her  sentence  as  she 
shall  have  balance  of  good  days  to  her  credit. 

PERSONS  PROVIDED  TO  SUPERVISE  GIRLS. — 
The  trustees  may  appoint  one  or  more  suitable 
persons  to  serve  without  compensation  in  each 
county,  to  have  a  supervising  care  over  all  girls 
of  their  respective  counties  coming  within  the 
provisions  of  this  act,  and  to  aid  in  providing 
suitable  homes  for  girls  committed  to  said  home. 

CONTROL  OF  PERSONS. — Trustees  shall  have 
the  exclusive  custody,  care  and  guardianship  of 
girls  committed  to  said  home.  They  shall  pro- 
vide for  their  support  and  comfort,  instruct  them 
in  such  branches  of  useful  knowlege  as  may  be 

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suited  to  their  years  and  capacity  and  shall  cause 
them  to  be  taught  in  domestic  vocations.  And  to 
aid  in  such  education  and  training  and  to  assist 
in  their  own  support  they  shall  be  required  to 
pursue  tasks  suitable  to  their  years.  Avoiding 
sectarianism,  suitable  provision  shall  be  made 
for  their  moral  and  religious  instruction. 

GIRLS  CAN  BE  PLACED  IN  HOME  OF  CITIZEN,  sec.  242. 
— Any  girl  committed  under  the  provisions  of 
this  act  may  be  placed  in  the  home  of  any  good 
citizen  upon  such  terms  and  for  such  purpose  as 
may  be  agreed  upon,  or  she  may  be  given  to  any 
suitable  person  of  good  character  who  will  adopt 
her,  or  she  may  be  bound  to  any  reputable  person 
as  an  apprentice  or  as  a  servant,  where  such 
binding  will  be  to  her  advantage.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  trustees  to  see  that  the  girl  is 
properly  treated  and  cared  for;  should  the  girl 
be  cruelly  treated  or  neglected,  or  should  the 
terms  upon  which  she  was  committed  to  the  care 
of  any  person  not  be  observed,  or  should  such  care 
and  protection  for  any  reason  cease,  then  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  trustees  to  receive  such  girl 
again  into  the  custody,  care  and  protection  of 
said  home. 

DISCHARGE — CLOTHES    AND    MONEY    FUR-  sec.  243. 
NISHED. — Upon  the  discharge  of  any  girl  from 
the  home,  the  superintendent  shall  provide  her 
with  suitable  clothes  and  $5  in  money  and  pro- 
cure transportation  for  her  to  her  home. 

HUMANE   SOCIETIES. 

HUMANE    SOCIETIES — FINES — SPECIAL    Po-  counc.  Pro- 
LICEMEN. — Fines    paid    through    the    agency   of 
humane   societies   shall   be    transferred    to   their 
credit  if  they  are  incorporated  under  the  laws  of 
Illinois. 

The  general  superintendent  of  police  shall  have 
power,  upon  the  written  application  of  any  so- 
ciety for  prevention  of  cruelty  to  animals  and 

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children,  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  Illi- 
nois, to  appoint  not  to  exceed  25  special  police- 
men whose  names  shall  be  set  forth  in  such  ap- 
plication, who  shall  be  recommended  by  the  presi- 
dent of  such  society.  He  may  remove  any  per- 
sons so  appointed  without  assigning  any  cause 
therefor,  and  he  may  appoint  other  persons  upon 
similar  application  and  recommendation  to  take 
the  places  of  the  persons  removed. 

The  above  provision  is  on  the  condition  that 
the  city  shall  not  be  liable  for  the  compensation 
of  such  special  policemen,  and  that  such  com- 
pensation shall  be  provided  by  the  society  re- 
questing the  appointment. 

HUSBAND  AND  WIFE. 

R.  s.,  ch.  61,  EVIDENCE — HUSBAND  AND  WIFE. — No  hus- 
band or  wife  shall,  by  virtue  of  section  I  of  this 
act,  be  rendered  competent  to  testify  for  or  against 
each  other  as  to  any  transaction  or  conversation 
occurring  during  the  marriage,  whether  called 
as  witness  during  the  existence  of  the  marriage 
or  after  its  dissolution,  except  where  the  wife 
would,  if  unmarried,  be  plaintiff  or  defendant, 
or  where  the  cause  of  action  grows  out  of  a  per- 
sonal wrong  or  injury  done  by  one  to  the  other 
or  grows  out  of  the  neglect  of  the  husband  to 
furnish  the  wife  with  a  siutable  support,  and  ex- 
cept in  litigation  concerning  the  separate  property 
of  the  wife  and  in  divorce,  etc. ;  Provided,  that 
nothing  in  this  section  contained  shall  be  con- 
strued to  authorize  or  permit  any  such  husband 
01  wife  to  testify  to  any  admissions  or  conversa- 
tions of  the  other,  whether  made  by  him  to  her 
or  by  her  to  him  or  by  either  to  third  persons, 
except  in  suits  between  such  husband  and  wife. 

INCEST. 

R.  s.,  ch.  ss,        INCEST  —  FATHER    WITH    DAUGHTER. —  A 
eec.  156.  father  who  rudely  and  licentiously  cohabits  with 

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his  own  daughter  shall  be  imprisoned  in  the  peni- 
tentiary for  not  more  than  20  years. 

OF  RELATIVES. — Persons  within  the  degrees  of  Sec.  157. 
consanguinity  within  which  marriage  is  for- 
bidden by  law,  who  intermarry  or  who  commit 
adultery  or  fornication  with  each  other,  shall  be 
imprisoned  in  the  penitentiary  not  exceeding  10 
years. 

INFORMATION  AND  PUBLICITY  BU- 
REAU. 

BUREAU  OF  INFORMATION  AND  PUBLICITY. —  counc.  Pro- 
There  is  hereby  created  a  bureau  for  the  city  of  ilio.'pf  2862! 
Chicago  which  shall  be  known  as  the  Bureau  of 
Information  and  Publicity  and  shall  embrace  a 
Commissioner  of  Information   and   Publicity,   a 
Chief  Statistician  and  such  investigators,  assist- 
ants and  employes  as  may  be  provided  by  ordi- 
nance. 

There  is  hereby  created  the  office  of  Commis- 
sioner of  Information  and  Publicity,  who  shall  be 
appointed  by  the  mayor  and  who  shall  have 
charge  of  the  general  management  of  all  matters 
and  things  pertaining  to  said  bureau. 

There  is  also  created  the  office  of  Chief  Stat- 
istician, who  shall  be  appointed  by  the  mayor, 
and  he  shall  act  as  municipal  librarian  and  shall 
perform  such  other  duties  pertaining  to  the  bu- 
reau as  the  commissioner  may  require. 

The  commissioner  shall  cause  to  be  collected 
and  compiled  information  relating  to  all  branches 
of  the  municipal  government,  and  in  so  far  as 
it  may  be  of  material  assistance  he  shall  compile 
information  relating  to  the  conditions  and  ac- 
tivities of  other  municipalities. 

He  shall  keep  on  file  all  reports  printed  by  the 
city  relating  to  the  government  of  the  city,  and 
shall  collect  and  compile  statistics  and  informa- 
tion concerning  public  service  corporations,  in- 

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eluding  the  ordinances,  laws  and  statutes  under 
which  such  public  service  corporations  operate. 

When  so  directed  by  the  mayor  or  city  coun- 
cil, or  when  he  deems  it  necessary,  the  com- 
missioner shall  issue  a  bulletin  publishing  the 
terms  of  any  new  ordinance  or  any  proposed 
change  in  any  existing  ordinance  of  the  city, 
which  shall  be  confined  to  a  brief  statement  of 
the  proposed  ordinance  and  shall  be  furnished 
free  to  the  public  by  said  commissioner  upon  ap- 
plication. 

Said  bureau  shall  be  open  to  the  public,  and 
the  public  shall,  subject  to  such  reasonable  rules 
and  regulations  as  may  be  prescribed  by  said  com- 
missioner, have  access  to  and  may  consult  all 
files  and  documents  of  said  bureau. 

INTEREST— RATES. 

R.  s.,  ch.  74,        INTEREST  —  PENALTY    FOR    CONTRACTING 
sec.  6.  MORE  THAN  SEVEN  PER  CENT. — If  any  person 

shall  contract  to  receive  a  greater  rate  of  in- 
terest than  7  per  cent  upon  any  contract,  verbal 
or  written,  such  person  shall  forfeit  the  whole 
of  said  interest  so  contracted  to  be  received  and 
shall  be  entitled  only  to  recover  the  principal 
sum  due  to  such  person. 

INTOXICATING  LIQUORS. 

R.  s.,  ch.  43.  DRAM  SHOP  DEFINED. — A  dram  shop  is  a 
place  where  spirituous,  vinous  or  malt  liquors  are 
retailed  by  less  quantity  than  one  gallon,  and  in- 
toxicating liquors  shall  be  deemed  to  include  all 
such  liquors  within  the  meaning  of  this  act. 

sec.  2.  SELLING  LIQUOR  WITHOUT  LICENSE. — It  is 

unlawful  to  sell  intoxicating  liquors  in  any  less 
quantity  than  one  gallon  without  a  license.  Pen- 
alty: fine  of  from  $2O  to  $100,  or  imprisonment 
in  the  county  jail,  from  10  to  20  days,  or  both, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

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SELLING  OR  GIVING  LIQUOR  TO  MINORS. —  sec.  6. 
Whoever  sells  or  gives  intoxicating  liquor  to 
any  minor  without  the  written  order  of  his  parent, 
guardian  or  family  physician  shall  be  fined  not 
less  than  $20  nor  more  than  $100,  or  imprisoned 
in  the  county  jail  not  less  than  10  nor  more  than 
30  days,  or  both. 

PERSONS  WHO  BUY  FOR  MINORS. — Persons  Sec.  6 
who  buy  for  minors  or  in  any  manner  procure 
or  aid  in  procuring  intoxicating  liquors  for  any 
minor  without  the  written  order  of  such  minor's 
parents   shall  be  fined  as  in  the  above  section. 

NUISANCES. — All  places  where  intoxicating  Sec.  7. 
liquors  are  sold  in  violation  of  this  act  shall  be 
held  to  be  common  nuisances,  and  all  rooms,  eat- 
ing houses,  coffee  houses,  etc.,  where  intoxicating 
liquors  are  sold  in  violation  of  this  act  shall  be 
deemed  public  nuisances.  Whoever  shall  keep 
such  a  place  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  $50  and 
not  more  than  $100  and  confined  in  the  county 
jail  not  less  than  20  nor  more  than  50  days,  and 
it  shall  be  a  part  of  the  judgment  that  the  place 
so  kept  shall  be  closed  until  the  keeper  shall  give 
bond  in  the  sum  of  $1,000,  conditioned  that  he 
will  not  sell  intoxicating  liquors  contrary  to  the 
laws  of  this  state,  and  will  pay  all  fines,  costs 
and  damages  assessed  against  him  for  any  viola- 
tion thereof. 

LIABILITY  FOR  SUPPORT. — Any  person  who,  sec.  8. 
by  the  sale  of  intoxicating  liquor,  causes  the  in- 
toxication of  another  may  be  compelled  to  pay  a 
reasonable  compensation  for  taking  care  of  such 
intoxicated  person,  and,  in  addition,  $2  for  every 
day  such  person  is  kept  in  consequence  of  such 
intoxication. 

SUIT   FOR   DAMAGES    BY   HUSBAND,   WIFE,  sec.  9. 
CHILD,  ETC. — Every  husband,  wife,  child,  parent, 
guardian,  employer  or  other  person  who  shall  be 
injured  in  person  or  property  or  means  of  sup- 
port by  any  intoxicated  person  or  in  consequence 

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of  the  intoxication,  shall  have  a  right  of  action 
severally  or  jointly  against  any  person  who,  by 
selling  or  giving  the  intoxicating  liquors,  causes 
the  intoxication  of  such  person.  The  owner, 
lessor  or  lessee  of  any  premises  wherein  intoxi- 
cating liquors  are  sold  who  has  knowledge  that 
intoxicating  liquors  are  sold  therein  or  shall 
knowingly  permit  therein  the  sale  of  intoxicating 
liquors  that  have  caused  in  whole  or  in  part  the 
intoxication  of  any  person,  shall  be  liable,  sever- 
ally or  jointly,  with  the  person  selling  or  giving 
intoxicating  liquors  as  aforesaid,  for  all  damages 
sustained  and  for  exemplary  damages.  Any  such 
unlawful  sale  or  giving  away  of  intoxicating 
liquors  shall  work  a  forfeiture  of  all  rights  of 
any  lessee  or  tenant  under  any  lease  to  such 
premises. 

R.  s.,  ch.  43,  DANCES — ADMISSION  OF  MINORS. — That  it 
shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corpora- 
tion, as  owner,  agent,  lessee  or  otherwise,  that 
maintains  or  conducts  any  public  dance  hall, 
where  intoxicating  beverages  or  liquors  are  sold 
or  given  away,  or  any  such  dance  hall  that  is 
adjacent  to  or  connected  with  any  room,  building, 
park  or  enclosure  of  any  kind  where  such  in- 
toxicating beverages  or  liquors  are  sold  or  given 
away,  to  permit  any  minor  to  enter  and  be  and 
remain  within  such  public  dance  hall  or  be  and 
remain  upon  the  premises  where  such  public 
dance  hall  is  located,  unless  such  minor  is  ac- 
companied by  his  or  her  parent  or  parents. 
Penalty:  any  violation  of  this  act  shall  constitute 
a  misdemeanor;  fine,  $25  to  $2OO  for  each  of- 
fense. Any  person  falsely  representing  himself 
or  herself  as  parent  of  any  minor  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor  and  be  fined  as  above. 

R.  M.  c.,  INTOXICATING  LIQUORS. — It  shall  be  unlaw- 

ful for  any  person  to  sell  or  give  away  intoxicat- 
ing liquors  in  any  premises  where  public  enter- 
tainments are  given  for  gain  or  in  any  rooms 

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connected  with  the  same,  without  a  special  permit 
from  the  mayor.     Penalty,  not  more  than  $IOO. 

WINE  ROOMS  PROHIBITED. — No  person  op-  Sec- 1341 
crating,  maintaining  or  conducting  a  dram  shop 
or  other  place  where  intoxicating  liquors  are 
dealt  in  in  any  way  shall  establish  or  maintain 
in  connection  with  such  place  any  wine  room 
or  private  apartment  the  interior  of  which  is 
shut  off  from  public  view  by  doors,  curtains,  etc. 

LICENSE  POSTED. — License  to  keep  a  saloon  Sec.  1346. 
must  be  posted  in  a  conspicuous  place  contiguous 
to  or  above  the  bar. 

HABITUAL  DRINKERS. — Whenever  the  wife  or  sec.  1351. 
any  other  relative  of  any  person  habitually  ad- 
dicted to  the  use  of  any  intoxicating  drink,  by 
notice  in  writing  personally  served,  shall  make  a 
request  to  any  person  licensed  to  deal  in  intoxi- 
cating liquors  not  to  sell  or  give  away  any  such 
liquor  to  any  such  person,  it  shall  thereafter  be 
unlawful  for  such  dealer  to  sell  or  give  away  to 
such  person.  Penalty,  $20  to  $100  fine. 

MINORS. — No  person  owning  or  operating  a  Sec.  1352. 
place  where  intoxicating  liquors  are  sold  or  given 
away  shall  permit  any  minor  to  drink  therein 
intoxicating  liquors  of  any  kind,  or  to  play  therein 
with  dice,  dominoes,  cards,  balls  or  other  articles 
used  in  gaming.  Nor  shall  any  such  person  own- 
ing or  operating  such  place  sell  or  give  away  or 
deliver  to  any  minor  any  intoxicating  liquors 
either  to  be  drunk  on  the  premises  or  to  be  carried 
way.  Penalty:  $20  to  $ i oo  fine. 

MINORS — INTOXICATION. — Any  minor  who  s«c.  1434. 
nail  be  intoxicated  or  who  shall  in  any  manner 
btain  for  his  own  personal  use  intoxicating 
!quor  in  a  licensed  saloon  shall  be  fined  $25  for 
ic  first  offense  and  not  more  than  $100  for  sub- 
equent  offenses. 

FALSE  REPRESENTATIONS. — Minors  who  ob-  sec.  1436. 
ain  intoxicating  liquors  by  means  of  false  pre- 

nses  shall  be  fined  not  more  than  $50. 

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MATERIALS  IMPREGNATED  WITH  LIQUOR. — 
Any  person  who  shall  sell  or  deliver  to  or  procure 
for  any  minor  under  1 6  years  of  age  cigarettes, 
whiskey,  candy  or  other  material  saturated  with 
intoxicating  liquors  shall  be  fined  from  $20  to 
$100. 

BAR  PERMITS. — The  mayor  is  authorized  upon 
written  appl  tttion  to  issue  a  bar  permit  for  the 
sale  of  into  icating  liquors  to  any  corporation, 
voluntary  ssociation  or  society  of  persons  or- 
ganized in  good  faith  for  fraternal,  educational 
and  charitable  purposes,  or  to  any  person  for  such 
sale  at  retail  at  any  gathering  held  by  any  such 
corporation,  voluntary  association  or  society. 

The  applicant  for  such  permits  shall  furnish 
satisfactory  proof  of  good  character,  the  reputa- 
ble standing  of  such  society  and  also  as  to  the 
respectability  of  the  gathering  for  which  the  per- 
mit is  sought.  The  ordinance  shall  not  be  con- 
strued to  authorize  issuance  of  bar  permits  to 
persons  or  alleged  pleasure  clubs  for  the  sale  of 
intoxicating  liquors  at  dance  halls  where  dis- 
reputable persons  gather  and  young  boys  and 
girls  are  lured  to  vice  and  crime. 

Such  societies  shall  each  be  entitled  to  receive 
not  to  exceed  six  permits  per  year,  nor  shall  more 
than  six  permits  per  year  be  issued  to  any  person 
for  sale  at  any  gathering  of  such  societies,  and 
such  permits  shall  not  be  granted  for  a  longer 
time  than  from  3  o'clock  p.  m.  until  3  o'clock 
a.  m.  The  fee  shall  be  $6  in  advance.  When- 
ever a  dance  is  to  be  held  at  any  such  gathering 
a  police  officer  shall  be  detailed  whose  duty  it 
shall  be  to  see  that  none  of  the  city  ordinances 
for  the  maintenance  of  good  order  and  decency 
is  violated. 

INTOXICATING  LIQUORS,  SAMPLE  BOTTLES  OF 
— DISTRIBUTION  TO  MINORS  PROHIBITED. — It 
shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  give  away 
or  distribute  any  sample  bottle,  jug,  flask,  etc., 
of  intoxicating  liquors  by  leaving  them  in  any 

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hallway  or  vestibule,  private  area  or  yard  or  on 
any  doorstep  or  in  any  street,  alley  or  public 
ground. 

It  is  unlawful  for  any  person  to  so  deliver  any 
such  liquor  to  any  minor.  Penalty:  fine  of  from 
$25  to  $200. 

JUNK    AND    SECOND-HAND    STORES. 

SECOND-HAND    STORES  —  LICENSE — BUYING  counc.  Pro- 
FROM  MINORS. — No  person  shall  conduct  a  sec-  ifog/pf  IBS?! 
ond-hand  store  without  being  specially  licensed 
for  that  purpose. 

No  person  so  licensed  shall  be  permitted  to 
solicit  business  for  such  second-hand  store  upon 
the  streets.  Penalty :  fine  of  $50  to  $200. 

No  keeper  of  a  second-hand  store  or  a  junk 
shop  shall  purchase  any  wares  whatsoever  from 
any  minors  without  the  written  consent  of  the 
parents  or  guardians  under  a  penalty  of  from 
$5  to  $50  for  each  offense. 

JUVENILE  COURT  AND  INSTITU- 
TIONS. 

TREATMENT  AND  CONTROL  OF  DEPENDENT,  NEG- 
LECTED AND  DELINQUENT  CHILDREN. 

DEFINITION. — That  all  persons  under  the  age  R.  s.,  ch.  23, 
of  21  years  shall,  for  the  purposes  of  this  act  only,   sec>  169- 
be  considered  wards  of  this  state  and  that  their 
persons  shall  be  subject  to  the  care,   guardian- 
ship and  control  of  the  court,  as  hereinafter  pro- 
vided. 

For  the  purposes  of  this  act,  the  words  "de- 
pendent child"  and  "neglected  child"  shall  mean 
any  male  child  who,  while  under  the  age  of  17 
years,  or  any  female  child  who,  while  under  the 
age  of  1 8  years,  for  any  reason,  is  destitute,  home- 
less or  abandoned;  or  dependent  upon  the  public 
for  support;  or  has  not  proper  parental  care  or 
guardianship ;  or  habitually  begs  or  receives  alms ; 

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or  is  found  living  in  any  house  of  ill  fame,  or 
with  any  vicious  or  disreputable  person;  or  has  a 
home  which  by  reason  of  neglect,  cruelty,  or  de- 
pravity, on  the  part  of  its  parents,  guardian  or 
any  other  person  in  whose  care  it  may  be,  is  an 
unfit  place  for  such  a  child;  and  any  child  who, 
while  under  the  age  of  10  years,  is  found  beg- 
ging, peddling  or  selling  any  articles,  or  singing 
or  playing  any  musical  instrument  for  gain  upon 
the  street  or  giving  any  public  entertainments, 
or  who  accompanies,  or  is  used  in  aid  of,  any 
person  so  doing. 

The  words  "delinquent  child"  shall  mean  any 
male  child  who,  while  under  the  age  of  17  years, 
or  any  female  child  who,  while  under  the  age  of 
1 8  years,  violates  any  law  of  this  state;  or  is  in- 
corrigible, or  knowingly  associates  with  thieves, 
vicious  or  immoral  persons;  or  without  just  cause 
and  without  the  consent  of  its  parents,  guardian 
or  custodian  absents  itself  from  its  home  or 
place  of  abode;  or  is  growing  up  in  idleness  or 
crime;  or  knowingly  frequents  a  house  of  ill 
repute;  or  knowingly  frequents  any  policy  shop 
or  place  where  any  gambling  device  is  operated; 
or  frequents  any  saloon  or  dram  shop  where  in- 
toxicating liquors  are  sold;  or  patronizes  or  visits 
any  public  pool  room  or  bucket  shop ;  or  wanders 
about  the  street  in  the  night  time  without  being 
on  any  lawful  business  or  lawful  occupation;  or 
habitually  wanders  about  any  railroad  yards,  or 
tracks,  or  jumps  or  attempts  to  jump  onto  any 
moving  train;  or  enters  into  any  car  or  engine 
without  lawful  authority;  or  uses  vile,  obscene, 
vulgar,  profane,  or  indecent  language  in  any  pub- 
lic place  or  about  any  school  house;  or  is  guilty 
of  indecent  or  lascivious  conduct;  any  child  com- 
mitting any  of  these  acts  herein  mentioned  shall 
be  deemed  a  delinquent  child  and  shall  be  cared 
for  as  such  in  the  manner  hereinafter  provided. 

A  disposition  of  any  child  under  this  act,  or 
any  evidence  given  in  such  cause,  shall  not,  in 

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any  civil,  criminal  or  other  cause  or  proceeding 
whatever,  in  any  court,  be  lawful  or  proper  evi- 
dence against  such  child  for  any  purpose  what- 
ever, except  in  subsequent  cases  against  the  same 
child  under  this  act.  The  words  "child"  or 
"children"  may  be  held  to  mean  one  or  more 
children,  and  the  words  "parent"  or  "parents" 
may  be  held  to  mean  one  or  more  parents  when 
consistent  with  the  intent  of  this  act.  The  word 
"association"  shall  include  any  association,  in- 
stitution or  corporation  which  include  in  their 
purposes  the  care  or  disposition  of  children  com- 
ing within  the  meaning  of  this  act. 

JURISDICTION. — The     Circuit     and     County  sec.  170 
Courts  of  the  several  counties  have  original  juris- 
diction in  juvenile  cases. 

JUVENILE  COURT. — Provides  for  designation  sec.  171. 
of  a  particular  judge  to  hear  juvenile  cases  in  a 
special  court  room,  in  counties  having  over  500,- 
ooo  population. 

PETITION  TO  THE  COURT. — Any  reputable  per-  sec.  172. 
son,  being  a  resident  of  the  county,  may  file  with 
the  clerk  of  the  court  having  jurisdiction  of  the 
matter,  a  petition  in  writing  setting  forth  that  a 
certain  child,  naming  it,  within  his  county,  not 
now  or  hereafter  an  inmate  of  a  state  institution 
incorporated  under  the  laws  of  this  state,  except 
as  piovided  in  sections  12  and  1 8  hereof,  is 
either  dependent,  neglected,  or  delinquent,  as  de- 
fined in  section  I  hereof ;  and  that  it  is  for  the  in- 
terest of  the  child  and  this  state  that  the  child 
be  taken  from  its  parents,  custodian  or  guardian, 
and  placed  under  the  guardianship  of  some  suita- 
ble person,  to  be  appointed  by  the  court;  and  that 
the  parents,  custodian  or  guardian  of  such  child 
are  unfit  or  improper  guardians,  or  are  unable 
or  unwilling  to  care  for,  protect,  train,  educate, 
control  or  discipline  such  child,  or  that  the 
parents,  guardian  or  custodian  consent  that  such 
child  be  taken  from  them. 

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The  petition  shall  also  set  forth  either  the 
name,  or  that  the  name  is  unknown  to  petitioner, 
(a)  of  the  person  having  the  custody  of  such 
child;  and  (b)  of  each  of  the  parents  or  the  sur- 
viving parent  of  a  legitimate  child  or  of  the 
mother  of  an  illegitimate  child;  or  (c)  if  it  al- 
lege that  both  such  parents  are,  or  such  mother  is, 
dead,  then  of  the  guardian,  if  any,  of  such  child ; 
(d)  if  it  allege  that  both  such  parents  are,  or 
that  such  mother  is,  dead,  and  that  no  guardian 
of  such  child  is  known  to  petitioner,  then  of  a 
near  relative,  or  that  none  such  is  known  to 
petitioner.  The  petition  shall  also  state  the 
residence  of  such  parties  so  far  as  the  same 
are  known  to  such  petitioner.  All  persons 
as  named  in  such  petition  shall  be  made  de- 
fendants by  name,  and  shall  be  notified  of  such 
proceedings  by  a  summons,  if  residents  of  this 
state,  in  the  same  manner  as  is  now,  or  may 
hereafter  be,  required  in  chancery  proceedings 
by  the  laws  of  this  state,  except  only  as  herein 
otherwise  provided. 

All  persons,  if  any,  who,  or  whose  names  are 
stated  in  the  petition  to  be  unknown  to  petitioner, 
shall  be  deemed  and  taken  as  defendants  by  the 
name  or  designation  of  "All  whom  it  may  con- 
cern." The  petition  shall  be  verified  by  affidavit, 
which  affidavit  shall  be  sufficient  upon  informa- 
tion and  belief.  Process  shall  be  issued  against 
all  persons  made  parties  by  the  designation  of 
"All  whom  it  may  concern,"  by  such  description, 
and  notice  by  publication  as  is  required  in  this 
act  shall  be  sufficient  to  authorize  the  court  to 
hear  and  determine  the  suit  as  though  the  parties 
had  been  sued  by  their  proper  names. 

SUMMONS. —  (For  form  of  summons  and  sub- 
stance of  this  section  see  the  statutes  cited,  or 
consult  the  attorney  of  the  Juvenile  Protective 
Association  or  the  Chief  Probation  Officer  of  the 
Juvenile  Court.) 

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PROBATION  OFFICERS. — This  section  vests  the  s*c.  174. 
court  with  authority  to  appoint  or  designate 
probation  officers.  It  also  specifies  the  duties  of 
the  probation  officers,  provides  for  their  compen- 
sation, and  places  them  under  the  rules  and  regu- 
lations of  Civil  Service  governing  the  appoint- 
ment of  other  officers  or  employees  of  the  county. 

DEPENDENT  AND  NEGLECTED  CHILDREN. — If  sec.  in. 
the  court  shall  find  any  male  child  under  the 
age  of  17  years,  or  any  female  child  under  the 
age  of  1 8  years,  to  be  dependent  or  neglected 
within  the  meaning  of  this  act,  the  court  may 
allow  such  child  to  remain  at  its  own  home  sub- 
ject to  the  friendly  visitation  of  a  probation 
officer.  And  if  the  parent,  parents,  guardian  or 
custodian  consent  thereto,  or  if  the  court  shall 
further  find  that  the  parent,  parents,  guardian 
or  custodian  of  such  child  are  unfit  or  improper 
guardians,  or  are  unable  or  unwilling  to  care 
for,  protect,  train,  educate  or  discipline  such 
child,  and  that  it  is  for  the  interest  of  such 
child  and  of  the  people  of  this  state  that  such 
child  be  taken  from  the  custody  of  its  parents, 
custodian  or  guardian,  the  court  may  make  an 
order  appointing  as  guardian  of  the  person  of 
such  child  some  reputable  citizen  of  good  moral 
character,  and  order  the  guardian  to  place  such 
child  in  some  suitable  family  home  or  other  suit- 
able place  which  such  guardian  may  provide  for 
such  child,  or  the  court  may  enter  an  order  com- 
mitting such  child  to  some  suitable  state  insti- 
tution, organized  for  the  care  of  dependent  and 
neglected  children,  or  to  some  training  school, 
or  industrial  school,  or  to  some  association  em- 
bracing in  its  objects  the  purpose  of  caring  for 
or  obtaining  homes  for  neglected  or  dependent 
children,  which  association  shall  have  b?en 
accredited  as  hereinafter  provided. 

GUARDIANSHIP. — In  case  of  commitment  of  Sec.  n«. 
child   to  an  institution  or  association   the  court 
shall  appoint  the  president,  secretary,  or  superin- 

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tendent  of  such  institution  guardian  over  the 
person  of  such  child,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
hold,  care  for,  train  and  educate  such  child, 
subject  to  the  rules  and  laws  in  force  at  such 
institution  or  association. 

DISPOSITION  OF  DELINQUENT  CHILDREN. — If 
the  court  shall  find  any  male  child  under  the 
age  of  17  years,  or  any  female  child  under  the 
age  of  1 8  years,  to  be  delinquent  within  the 
meaning  of  this  act,  the  court  may  allow  such 
child  to  remain  at  its  own  home  subject  to  the 
friendly  visitation  of  a  probation  officer,  such 
child  to  report  to  the  probation  officer  as  often 
as  may  be  required,  and  if  the  parents,  parent, 
custodian  or  guardian  consent  thereto,  or  if  the 
court  shall  further  find  either  that  the  parent, 
parents,  guardian  or  custodian  are  unfit  or  im- 
proper guardians  or  are  unable  or  unwilling 
to  care  for,  protect,  train,  educate  or  discipline 
such  child,  and  shall  further  find  that  it  is 
for  the  interest  of  such  child  and  of  the  people 
of  this  state  that  such  child  be  taken  from  the 
custody  of  its  parents,  parent,  custodian  or  jruar- 
dian,  the  court  may  appoint  some  proper  per- 
son or  probation  officer  guardian  over  the  per- 
son of  such  child  and  permit  it  to  remain  at  its 
home,  or  order  such  guardian  to  cause  such 
child  to  be  placed  in  a  suitable  family  home,  or 
cause  it  to  be  boarded  out  in  some  suitable  fam- 
ily home,  in  case  provision  is  made  by  voluntary 
contribution  or  otherwise  for  payment  of  the 
board;  or  the  court  may  commit  such  child  to 
some  training  school  for  boys,  if  a  male  child, 
or  to  an  industrial  school  for  girls,  if  a  female 
child,  or  to  any  institution  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  this  state  to  care  for  delinquent  chil- 
dren, or  to  any  institution  that  has  been  or  may 
be  provided  by  the  state,  county,  city,  town  or 
village  suitable  for  the  care  of  delinquent  chil- 
dren, including  St.  Charles  School  for  Boys, 
and  State  Training  School  for  Girls,  or  to 

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some  association  that  will  receive  it,  embracing 
in  its  objects  the  care  of  neglected,  dependent 
or  delinquent  children,  and  which  has  been  duly 
accredited  as  hereinafter  provided.  In  every 
case  where  such  child  is  committed  to  an  insti- 
tution or  association,  it  shall  appoint  fhe  presi- 
dent, secretary,  or  superintendent  of  such  in- 
stitution or  association  guardian  over  the  person 
of  such  child,  or  shall  order  such  guardian  to 
place  such  child  in  such  institution  or  with  such 
association  whereof  he  is  such  officer  and  to  hold 
such  child,  care  for,  train  and  educate  it,  sub- 
ject to  the  rules  and  laws  that  may  be  in  force 
from  time  to  time  governing  such  institution  or 
association. 

PROCESS  AGAINST  DELINQUENT  CHILD. —  sec.  ma. 
The  court  may  allow  a  delinquent  child  to  be 
proceeded  against  in  accordance  with  the  laws 
of  this  state  for  the  commission  of  crimes  or 
violation  of  city  ordinances.  In  such  case  the 
petition  filed  under  this  act  shall  be  dismissed. 

PLACING   IN   PUBLIC   HOSPITAL,   ETC. — The  s«c.  i?7b. 
court  may  order  a  guardian  to  place  a  depend- 
ent, neglected  or  delinquent  child,  when  its  condi- 
tion requires  it,  in  a  public  or  private  hospital 
or  institution. 

AUTHORITY  OF  GUARDIAN,  INSTITUTION  OR  s«c.  me. 
ASSOCIATION. — A  dependent,  neglected  or  delin- 
quent child  shall  be  placed  in  an  institution  or 
association  by  its  guardian  by  virtue  of  the  order 
entered  in  such  case.  The  guardianship  under 
this  act  shall  continue  until  the  further  order 
of  court  or  until  the  child  shall  have  reached 
the  age  of  21  years.  Such  child  or  person  in- 
terested in  such  child  may  apply  at  any  time 
to  the  court  for  (a)  appointment  of  new  guar- 
dian, (b)  restoration  of  child  to  custody  of 
parents,  or  (c)  discharge  of  the  guardian  ap- 
pointed. 


RETURNED  TO  HOME  ON  PROBATION. — When- 
ever it  shall  appear  to  the  court  that  the  home 
of  a  child  placed  under  guardianship,  or  the  home 
of  his  parents  or  guardian,  is  a  suitable  place  for 
such  child,  and  that  such  child  could  be  per- 
mitted to  remain,  or  ordered  to  be  returned 
to  said  home,  consistent  with  the  public  good 
and  the  good  of  such  child,  the  court  may  enter 
an  order  to  that  effect,  returning  such  child  to 
his  home  under  probation,  parole  or  otherwise; 
provided,  however,  that  no  such  order  shall  be 
entered  without  giving  ten  days'  notice  to  the 
guardian  or  institution  to  whose  care  the  child 
has  been  committed,  unless  such  guardian  or  in- 
stitution consents  to  such  order. 

REPORT  OF  GUARDIAN — CITATION  INTO 
COURT. — The  guardian  or  institution  having  the 
custody  of  a  child  may  be  cited  into  court  at 
any  time  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  full  re- 
port as  to  his  or  its  doings  in  behalf  of  such 
child.  Said  report  shall  be  made  within  ten 
days.  The  court,  with  or  without  further  evi- 
dence, may  remove  such  guardian  and  appoint 
another  in  his  stead,  take  such  child  away  from 
such  institution  and  place  it  in  another,  or  re- 
store it  to  its  parents  or  former  guardian. 

TRANSFER  FROM  JUSTICE  OR  POLICE  MAGIS- 
TRATES.— Whenever  a  male  child  under  the  age 
of  17  years,  or  a  female  child  under  the  age 
of  1 8  years,  is  arrested,  with  or  without  warrant, 
the  child  may  be  taken  directly  into  the  Juvenile 
Court.  When  such  child  is  brought  before  a 
police  magistrate  or  into  the  Municipal  Court, 
the  judge  shall  transfer  the  case  to  the  Juvenile 
Court  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  officer  hav- 
ing the  child  in  charge  to  take  such  child  be- 
fore such  court,  and  the  said  court  may  proceed 
to  hear  and  dispose  of  the  case  as  if  it  had  been 
brought  upon  petition.  In  any  case  the  court 
shall  ^require  notice  to  be  given  and  investiga- 

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tion   to  be   made  and   the   hearing  may   be   ad- 
journed  from   time   to   time  for  that   purpose. 

CHILDREN  UNDER  12  YEARS  NOT  TO  BE  sec.  179. 
COMMITTED  TO  JAIL. — No  court  shall  commit 
a  child  under  12  years  of  age  to  a  jail  or  police 
station,  but  such  child,  if  unable  to  give  bail, 
shall  be  committed  to  the  sheriff,  police  officer,  or 
probation  officer,  who  shall  keep  such  child  in 
some  suitable  place.  It  shall  be  unlawful  to 
confine  any  child  in  the  same  building  with  adult 
convicts,  or  in  the  same  yard  or  enclosure  with 
adult  convicts,  or  to  bring  such  child  into  any 
yard  or  building  in  which  adult  convicts  shall 
be  present. 

JAILS — SEPARATION  OF  MINORS. — Minors  in  R.  g..  Ch.  75. 
the  jails  shall  be  kept     separate  from  notorious  sec-  n- 
offenders  and  those  convicted  of  a  felony  or  other 
infamous   crime,    and    persons   charged   with   or 
convicted  of  an  offense  not  infamous,  from  those 
charged  with  or  convicted  of  infamous  crimes. 

AGENTS    OF    JUVENILE     REFORMATORIES. —  R.  s..  ch.  28. 
Provides  for  the  appointment  by  the  Board  of  sec- 180' 
Managers  of   any  institution  to  which  juvenile 
delinquents   may   be   committed   of   agents   who 
shall  look  after  the  homes  of  children  paroled 
from  such  institution,  assist  children  paroled  or 
discharged     from    such    institution    in    rinding 
employment  and  maintain    friendly    supervision 
over  paroled  inmates  and  report  upon  such  work 
to  the  court. 

SUPERVISION  BY  STATE  COMMISSIONERS  OF  sec.  m. 
PUBLIC  CHARITIES. — All  associations  receiving 
children  under  this  act  shall  be  subject  to  the 
same  visitation  as  are  the  public  charitable  in- 
stitutions of  this  state,  by  the  Board  of  State 
Commissioners  of  Public  Charities.  The  section 
further  provides  that  the  commissioners  shall 
pass  annually  upon  the  fitness  of  every  associa- 
tion that  may  receive  children,  and  furnish  cer- 
tificates to  those  associations  they  find  competent. 

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The  court  may  at  any  time  require  from  any 
association  receiving  children  such  reports,  in- 
formation and  statements  as  the  judge  may  deem 
proper  and  necessary. 

sec.  is:.  INCORPORATION  OF  ASSOCIATIONS. — No  asso- 

ciation whose  objects  may  embrace  the  caring 
for  dependent,  neglected  or  delinquent  children 
shall  hereafter  be  incorporated,  unless  the  pro- 
posed articles  of  incorporation  shall  first  have 
been  submitted  to  the  Board  of  State  Commis- 
sioners of  Public  Charities,  and  the  Secretary 
of  State  shall  not  issue  a  certificate  of  incor- 
poration unless  there  shall  first  be  filed  with 
him  the  certificate  of  the  Board  of  State  Com- 
missioners of  Public  Charities,  that  in  its  judg- 
ment the  incorporators  are  reputable  and  respon- 
sible persons,  the  proposed  •  work  is  needed,  and 
the  incorporation  of  such  association  is  desirable 
and  for  the  public  good. ,  Amendments  pro- 
posed to  the  articles  of  incorporation  or  as- 
sociation having  as  an  object  the  care  and  dis- 
posal of  dependent,  neglected  or  delinquent  chil- 
dren shall  be  passed  upon  in  like  manner  by 
the  Board  of  State  Commissioners  of  Public 
Charities. 

Sec.  183.  ADOPTION  OF  CHILD. — The  court  may  author- 

ize the  guardian  appointed  for  a  child  to  con- 
sent to  the  legal  adoption  of  said  child,  provided 
that  the  court  finds,  (i)  the  parents  or  surviv- 
ing parent  of  a  legitimate  child,  or  the  mother 
of  an  illegitimate  child,  or,  if  no  parents  living, 
the  guardian  of  a  child,  or  if  the  child  has  no 
parents  living  and  no  guardian,  then  a  near  rela- 
tive, consents  to  such  order;  or,  (2)  that  one 
parent  consents  and  the  other  is  unfit  to  have 
the  child,  or  that  both  parents  are,  or  the  sur- 
viving parent,  or  the  mother  of  an  illegitimate 
child  is,  unfit  for  any  of  the  following  reasons, 
(a)  depravity,  (b)  open  and  notorious  forni- 
cation, (c)  habitual  drunkenness  for  the  space 
of  one  year  prior  to  the  filing  of  the  petition, 

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(d)  extreme  and  repeated  cruelty  to  the  child, 

(e)  abandonment  of  the  child,  or  (f)  desertion 
of  the  child  for  more  than  six  months  preceding 
the  riling  of  the  petition. 

FOREIGN  CORPORATIONS. — No  foreign  cor-  SQC.  184. 
poration  shall  place  children  in  homes  in  this 
state  unless  they  guarantee  the  Board  of  Pub- 
lic Charities  not  to  bring  in  deformed  or  feeble- 
minded children,  or  children  with  contagious 
or  incurable  diseases,  or  children  of  vicious  char- 
acter; and  that  they  will  remove  within  five 
years  any  child  brought  into  this  state,  which 
has  become  a  public  charge.  Any  person  who 
shall  receive  to  be  placed  or  shall  place  in  a  home 
any  child  on  behalf  of  any  association  in- 
corporated in  any  other  state  than  the  State  of 
Illinois,  which  shall  not  have  complied  with  the 
requirements  of  this  act,  shall  be  imprisoned 
in  the  county  jail  not  more  than  thirty  days, 
or  fined  not  less  than  $5  or  more  than  $100, 
or  both,  in  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

RELIGIOUS  PREFERENCES. — Children  shall  be  sec.  iss. 
placed  so  far  as  possible  with  individuals  hold- 
ing the  same  religious  views  as  the  parents  of 
such    children,    or    with    associations    controlled 
by  persons  of  like  religious  faith. 

SUPPORT  OF  CHILD. — If  it  shall  appear  upon  sec.  190 
the  hearing  of  the  cause  that  the  parents,  or  any 
person  named  in  such  petition  who  are  liable 
for  the  support  of  such  child,  are  able  to  con- 
tribute to  the  support  of  such  child,  the  court 
shall  enter  an  order  requiring  such  parents  or 
persons  to  pay  to  the  guardian  so  appointed,  or 
to  the  institution  to  which  such  child  may  be 
committed,  a  reasonable  sum  for  the  support, 
maintenance,  and  education  of  such  child,  and 
the  court  may  require  reasonable  security  for 
the  payment  of  such  sums,  and  in  case  of  failure 
so  to  pay,  may  enforce  obedience  to  such  order 
by  a  proceeding  as  for  contempt  of  court.  Such 

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alterations  in  the  allowance  shall  be  made  from 
time  to  time  as  appear  reasonable. 

Sec.  190a.  ASSIGNMENT  OF  WAGES,   ETC. — If  the  person 

so  ordered  to  pay  for  the  support,  maintenance 
or  education  of  a  child  shall  be  employed  for 
wages,  salary  or  commission,  the  court  may  order 
that  the  sum  to  be  paid  by  him  shall  be  paid 
to  the  guardian  or  institution  out  of  his  wages, 
salary  or  commission,  and  that  he  shall  execute 
an  assignment  thereof,  pro  tanto.  The  court 
may  also  order  the  parent  or  person  so  ordered 
to  pay,  to  make  discovery  to  the  court  as  to 
his  employment  and  amount  earned  by  him. 
Upon  his  failure  to  obey  the  orders  he  may  be 
punished  as  for  contempt  of  court. 

Sec.  I90b.  ACT — How  CONSTRUED. — The  guardian  ap- 

pointed under  this  act  has  not  the  guardianship 
of  the  estate  of  the  child. 

R.  M.  c.,  EXAMINATION  OF  JUVENILE    COURT    CASES 

sec.  1048.  BY  CITY  PHYSICIAN. — The  city  physician,  when 
directed  by  the  judge  of  the  Juvenile  Court, 
shall  examine  the  physical  condition  of  de- 
pendent and  delinquent  children  and  report  the 
results  in  writing  to  the  officer  authorized  to  re- 
ceive the  same. 

Amend,  to  HOME  FOR  JUVENILE  OFFENDERS. — Section   I 

'v'i26.C"  °^  ^is  ordinance  provides  for  the  erection  of 
the  Detention  Home  for  Dependent  and  De- 
linquent Children,  for  the  detention  of  juvenile 
offenders,  pending  a  hearing  of  the  cause  for 
which  they  are  detained,  and  for  the  mainte- 
nance and  government  of  the  same.  Also  pro- 
vides that  this  work  shall  be  undertaken  in  con- 
junction with  Cook  County. 

Section  3  provides  that  the  said  institution 
shall  be  subject  to  such  rules  and  regulations 
as  may  be  made  by  a  joint  committee,  composed 
of  the  mayor  of  the  city  and  the  president  of 
the  Board  of  Commissioners. 

Section  4  provides  that  said  joint  committee 

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shall  exercise  control  over  said  institution  and 
shall  recommend  to  the  city  council  and  to 
the  Board  of  Commissioners  such  measures  as 
may  be  deemed  advisable  for  the  government  and 
maintenance  of  the  same. 

WHO  ADMITTED  TO  CHARITABLE    INSTITU-  R.  a.,  Ch.  23. 
TIONS — TERMS — VOLUNTARY   PAYMENTS. — All  sec- 44> 
residents  of  the  state  who  are  inmates  of  any 
of  the  state  charitable  institutions    shall  receive 
their  board,  tuition  and  treatment  free  of  charge. 
Should    any    inmate    be    unwilling    to    accept 
gratuitous  board,  treatment  or  tuition,  then  the 
superintendent  of  the  institution  is  authorized  to 
receive  pay  therefor  and  to  account  for  the  same. 

CLOTHING  AND  TRANSPORTATION  FUR-  sec.  45. 
NISHED  AT  EXPENSE  OF  COUNTY. — Necessary 
clothing  and  transportation  for  persons  sent  to 
the  institution  for  the  blind,  for  the  deaf  and 
dumb,  and  for  feeble-minded  children,  shall  be 
provided  for  at  the  expense  of  the  county,  when 
such  persons  are  too  poor  to  furnish  such  ar- 
ticles themselves,  and  when  the  judge  of  the 
County  Court  shall  make  an  order  to  that  effect. 

CHILDREN'S   HOMEFINDING  SOCIETIES. — The  session 
Board  of  Administration  shall  be  charged  with  igoT.Vm. 
inspecting  and  investigating  children's  homefind- 
ing  societies,  orphanages,  etc. 

VISITATION  OF  CHILDREN. — The  Board  of  P-  ios. 
Administration  shall  also  be  charged  with  the 
visitation  of  children  placed  in  family  homes  . 
and  certification  of  homefinding  associations  and 
orphanages,  and  with  the  duty  of  examining 
into  the  merits  and  fitness  of  all  associations 
which  purpose  caring  for  dependent,  neglected 
or  delinquent  children,  and  which  seek  incor- 
poration, and  of  reporting  its  findings  and  rec- 
ommendations relative  to  incorporation  to  the 
Secretary  of  State. 

PSYCHOPATHIC  INSTITUTE. — The    Board    of  p.  us. 
Administration  shall  maintain  the  State  Psycho- 

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pathic  Institute,  and  shall  appoint  a  director 
thereof  and  a  psychologist  who  shall  perform 

their  duties  under  the  direction  of  the  board. 

Sei 

KIDNAPPING. 

R.  s.,  ch.  88,  KIDNAPPING — CARRYING  AWAY  INFANT. — 
Whoever  wilfully  and  without  authority  forci- 
bly takes  or  entices  away  any  infant  under  the 
age  of  12  years,  without  the  consent  of  the  par- 
ent or  guardian,  with  intent  to  conceal  or  im- 
prison such  infant,  or  whoever  conceals  and  im- 
prisons such  infant  without  the  consent  of  the 
parents  or  guardian,  shall  be  imprisoned  in  the 
penitentiary  for  his  or  her  natural  life  or  any 
number  of  years. 

LIBRARY. 

R.  M.  c..  LIBRARY. — This  section  establishes    the    Chi- 

cago public  library  as  a  free  public  library  and 
reading  room  for  the  use  of  the  inhabitants  of 
the  city. 

LICENSES. 

R.  M.  c.,  LICENSES    TO    BE     POSTED. — Every    license 

granted  by  the  mayor  for  the  purpose  of  con- 
ducting any  business  required  by  this  ordinance 
to  be  licensed,  and  having  designated  therein  a 
particular  place  in  which  such  business  is  to  be 
conducted,  shall  be  posted,  and  during  the  life 
of  the  license  shall  remain  posted  at  all  times 
in  a  conspicuous  place  so  that  the  same  may  be 
easily  seen.  When  such  license  expires  it  shall 
be  removed. 

Penalty  for  violating  this  ordinance:     $5   to 
$100  fine. 

sec.  1328.  SUBJECT      TO      ORDINANCES. — All     licenses 

granted  are  subject  to  the  ordinances  of  the  city. 

LIMITATIONS. 

£>'cS'a'  ch- S3-  STATUTES  OF  LIMITATION — INFANTS. — With 
reference  to  rights  of  entry  or  of  action  upon 

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or  for  lands,  the  Statute  of  Limitation  does  not 
run  against  minors  until  after  the  expiration  of 
two  years  after  they  have  arrived  at  full  age. 

LODGING  HOUSES. 

STATE  BOARD  OF  HEALTH — SUPERVISION  OF 
LODGING  HOUSES. — The  State  Board  of  Health  sac.  15. 
shall  have  supervision  of  all  lodging  and  board- 
ing houses,  etc.,  and  shall  properly  inspect  the 
same  to  see  that  the  provisions  of  this  act  are 
observed. 

How  ROOM  AND  LODGING  HOUSE  TO  BE  Oc-  sec.  ie. 
CUPIED. — Every  room  occupied  for  sleeping  pur- 
poses shall  contain  400  or  more  cubic  feet  of 
air  space  for  each  person  sleeping  therein.  In 
case  of  rooms  containing  more  than  one  bed, 
there  shall  be  a  passageway  of  not  less  than  two 
feet  horizontally  on  all  sides  of  each  bed.  The 
air  shall  circulate  freely  under  the  beds  and 
there  shall  be  adequate  ventilation.  Penalty  for 
violating  this  act:  fine  of  not  less  than  $25  nor 
more  than  $100. 

LUNATICS. 

LUNATICS — INSANE  DEFINED. — That  the  R.  s.,  ch.  85. 
word  "insane"  shall  mean  any  person  who,  by  Bec- 1- 
reason  of  unsoundness  of  mind,  is  incapable  of 
managing  and  caring  for  his  own  estate,  or  is 
dangerous  to  himself  or  others,  if  permitted  to 
go  at  large,  or  is  in  such  condition  of  mind 
or  body  as  to  be  a  fit  subject  for  care  and  treat- 
ment in  an  asylum  or  hospital  for  the  insane; 
provided,  that  no  person,  idiot  from  birth,  or 
whose  mental  development  was  arrested  by  dis- 
ease, or  physical  injury  occurring  prior  to  the 
age  of  puberty,  and  no  person  afflicted  with  sim- 
ple epilepsy,  shall  be  regarded  as  insane,  unless 
the  manifestations  of  abnormal  excitability,  vio- 
lence or  homicidal  or  suicidal  impulses  are  such 

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as  to  render  his  confinement  a  proper  precaution 
to  prevent  him  from  injuring  himself  or  others. 

s«c.  3.  PROCEEDINGS    FOR    SUPPOSED     INSANITY. — 

When  any  person  shall  be  supposed  to  be  insane, 
any  reputable  citizen  of  the  county  may  file 
with  the  clerk  of  the  county  court  a  written 
statement  under  oath,  setting  forth  that  the  per- 
son named  is  insane  and  unsafe  to  be  at  large,  or 
is  suffering  under  mental  derangement,  and  that 
the  welfare  of  himself  or  others  requires  his 
restraint  or  commitment  to  some  asylum  or  hos- 
pital for  the  insane;  this  statement  must  be 
accompanied  by  the  names  of  the  witnesses,  one 
of  whom  must  be  a  physician  having  personal 
knowledge  of  the  case,  by  whom  the  truth  of 
the  allegations  therein  contained  may  be  proved. 
If  it  appear  that  the  person  alleged  to  be  in- 
sane has  not  been  examined  by  a  physician,  the 
judge  may  appoint  a  physician  to  make  proper 
examination. 

Sec.  6.  INQUESTS  IN   LUNACY. — Inquests   in   lunacy 

shall  be  by  a  jury  or  a  commission  of  two 
licensed  physicians. 

sec.  is.  INSANE    PERSONS    KEPT    AT    EXPENSE    OF 

STATE. — All  insane  persons  admitted  to  insane 
state  institutions  shall  be  maintained  at  the  ex- 
pense of  the  state;  cost  of  clothing,  transporta- 
tion and  other  incidental  expenses  shall  be  de- 
frayed by  themselves  or  the  county  from  which 
they  are  admitted. 

MARRIAGES. 

R.  s.,  ch.  89,  WHEN  MARRIAGE  Is  ILLEGAL. — Marriages 
between  parents  and  children,  including  grand- 
parents and  grandchildren  of  every  degree,  be- 
tween brothers  and  sisters  of  the  half  as  well 
as  of  the  whole  blood,  between  uncles  and 
nieces,  between  aunts  and  nephews,  and  between 
cousins  of  the  first  degree,  are  declared  to  be 

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incestuous   and    void.      This   section    extends   to 
illegitimate  children. 

AGE. — Males  of  the  age  of  21  years  and  up-  Sec.  s. 
wards,  and  females  of  the  age  of  18  years  and 
upwards,  may  contract  and  be  joined  in  mar- 
riage; males  of  18  years  and  upwards  or  females 
of  1 6  years  and  upwards  may  contract  mar- 
riage if  the  parents  or  guardians  of  such  per- 
sons appear  before  the  county  clerk  and  make 
affidavit  that  they  are  the  parents  or  guardians 
of  such  minors  and  give  consent  to  marriage. 

MATERNITY  HOSPITALS. 

HOSPITALS    AND    MATERNITY    HOSPITALS. —  Amend. 
A  maternity  hospital  is  any  institution  or  place   R11^;1".,*0 
used  for  the  reception   and   care,   temporary  or  sec.  1102. 
continuous,  of  one  of  more  women  during  preg- 
nancy, while  awaiting  confinement,   during  con- 
finement,  or   for  one   month  or  less   after  con- 
finement. 

LICENSE  REQUIRED. — It  shall  be  unlawful  to  Sec.  loos, 
open  and  conduct  any  hospital  as  above  defined, 
in   the  city  of  Chicago,   without  first  obtaining 
a  license. 

ILLEGAL    CONFINEMENTS. — It   shall    be    un-  sec.  no9e. 
lawful  for  any  physician,   midwife  or  nurse  to 
take  a  woman  into  his  own  home  for  confine- 
ment or  to  confine   her  in   any  place  except  a 
licensed  maternity  hospital. 

PENALTY. — Any    person   opening,   conducting  sec.  H09f. 
or  managing  a  hospital  as  herein  defined,  with- 
out first  having  obtained  a  license  therefor,  or 
in    violation    of    this    ordinance,    shall    be   fined 
from  $i  to  $200  for  each  offense. 

MINES. 

MINES — No  BOY  UNDER  16  AND  No  WOM-  R.  s.,  eh.  93, 
AN  OR  GIRL  TO   Do    MANUAL    LABOR. — No  8ec' 22- 
boy  under  16  years  of  age,  or  no  woman  or  girl 

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of  any  age,  shall  be  permitted  to  do  any  manual 
labor  in  or  about  any  mine,  and  before  any 
boy  can  be  permitted  to  work  in  any  mine  he 
must  produce  to  the  mine  manager  or  operator 
an  affidavit  from  his  parent  or  guardian  .that 
he  is  1 6  years  of  age. 

MORTGAGE  ON  HOUSEHOLD  GOODS. 

95,  FORECLOSURE — CHATTEL  MORTGAGES  ON 
HOUSEHOLD  GOODS. — No  chattel  mortgage  on 
necessary  household  goods,  wearing  apparel  or 
mechanics'  tools  of  any  person  or  family  shall 
be  foreclosed  except  in  a  court  of  record.  No 
such  household  goods,  etc.,  covered  by  a  chattel 
mortgage  shall  be  taken  out  of  the  possession  of 
the  mortgagor  before  foreclosure,  except  by  a 
sheriff,  and  then  only  after  the  mortgagee  or 
his  agent  shall  present  an  affidavit  to  a  judge, 
showing  that  the  mortgage  is  due,  or  that  he  is 
in  danger  of  losing  his  security,  giving  the  facts 
upon  which  he  relies,  and  shall  obtain  an  order 
from  such  judge  providing  for  the  seizure  of 
the  goods,  which  shall  be  held  subject  to  the 
order  of  the  court. 

MORTGAGES — HUSBAND  OR  WIFE  TO  JOIN. — 
No  chattel  mortgage,  executed  by  a  married 
man  or  married  woman,  on  household  goods, 
shall  be  valid  unless  joined  in  by  husband  or 
wife,  as  the  case  may  be. 

NOTES  SECURED  BY  A  CHATTEL  MORTGAGE. 
— All  notes  secured  by  chattel  mortgages  that 
do  not  state  upon  their  faces  that  they  are  so 
secured  shall  be  absolutely  void. 

MOTION  PICTURES  AND  ARCADES. 

ro-         CENSORSHIP    OF    MOVING    PICTURE   THEA- 

osL     TERS- — It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm 

or  corporation   to   show  or   exhibit   in   a   public 

place  any  pictures  of  the  kind  commonly  shown 

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in  mutoscopes,  etc.,  and  such  pictures  as  are 
commonly  shown  in  so-called  penny  arcades,  and 
in  all  other  moving  picture  devices,  whether  an 
admission  fee  is  charged  or  not,  without  first 
having  procured  a  permit  therefor  from  the 
Chief  of  Police. 

Such  permit  shall  be  granted  only  upon  ap- 
plication in  writing  for  same.  The  chief  shall 
cause  to  be  inspected  the  plates,  films,  or  other 
apparatus  from  which  such  pictures  are  pro- 
duced, and  within  three  days  after  such  inspec- 
tion a  permit  shall  be  granted  or  denied.  If 
granted,  it  shall  be  in  writing. 

If  a  picture,  or  series  of  pictures,  for  the  ex- 
hibition of  which  an  application  for  a  permit 
is  made,  is  immoral  or  obscene,  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Chief  of  Police  to  refuse  such  per- 
mit, otherwise  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  grant  such 
permit. 

The  permit  herein  provided  for  shall  be  ob- 
tained for  each  and  every  picture  or  series  of 
pictures  exhibited. 

When  a  permit  has  been  granted  to  one  ex- 
hibitor, no  other  exhibitor  may  show  the  same 
picture  or  series  of  pictures  unless  the  written 
permit  is  actually  delivered  to  him  and  a  writ- 
ten notice  of  the  transfer  or  lease  is  mailed  to 
the  Cnief  of  Police.  Said  written  notice  shall 
contain  the  name  and  Brief  description  of  the 
picture,  the  number  of  the  permit  and  the  loca- 
tion of  the  building  where  the  transferee  pro- 
poses to  exhibit  such  picture.  Each  day's  ex- 
hibition of  a  transferred  picture,  without  first 
having  mailed  notice  to  the  Chief  of  Police,  is 
a  violation  of  this  ordinance. 

The  written  permit  herein  provided  for  shall 
be  posted  at  or  near  the  entrance  to  the  theater, 
in  such  a  position  that  it  may  be  easily  read 
by  any  person  entering  such  theater  at  any  time 
when  such  permitted  picture  is  being  exhibited. 
Each  day's  exhibition  of  any  permitted  picture, 

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without  the  posting  of  the  permit,  shall  consti- 
tute a  violation  of  this  ordinance. 

Penalty  for  violation  of  this  ordinance:  fine 
of  from  $50  to  $100. 

ceedln'  sfor  MOVING     PICTURE     OPERATORS. — This     ordi- 

1908,  p.  1176.  nance  provides  for  the  licensing  by  the  city  of 
moving  picture  operators. 

MUNICIPAL   COURT   OF   CHICAGO. 

R.  s.,  ch.  37,  JURISDICTION. — The  Municipal  Court  shall 
have  jurisdiction  in,  among  others,  the  follow- 
ing cases: 

Third.  In  all  criminal  cases  in  which  the 
punishment  is  by  fine  or  imprisonment,  other- 
wise than  in  the  penitentiary,  and  all  other  crim- 
inal cases  which  the  laws  may  permit  to  be  prose- 
cuted otherwise  than  on  indictment. 

Fifth.  All  quasi  criminal  actions,  excepting 
bastardy  cases. 

Sixth.  All  proceedings  (a)  for  the  preven- 
tion of  the  commission  of  crime;  (b)  for  the 
arrest,  examination,  commitment,  and  bail  of 
persons  charged  with  criminal  offenses;  (c)  per- 
taining to  search  warrants,  and  (d)  all  bastardy 
cases. 

sec.  281.  No  GRATUITY  TO  BE  RECEIVED. — Neither  the 

clerk  nor  the  bailiff  nor  their  deputies  shall  re- 
ceive any  money  or  other  valuable  thing  as  a 
gratuity. 

Sec.  290.  HOW      CRIMINAL      CASES      PROSECUTED IN- 

FORMATION— COMPLAINT. — All  criminal  cases 
in  the  Municipal  Court,  in  which  the  punish- 
ment is  by  fine  or  imprisonment,  otherwise  than 
in  the  penitentiary,  may  be  prosecuted  by  in- 
formation of  the  state's  attorney  or  some  other 
person,  and  when  an  information  is  presented 
by  some  other  person  it  shall  be  verified  by 
affidavit  of  such  person  that  the  same  is  true,  or 
that  the  same  is  true  as  he  is  informed  and  be- 
lieves. Before  an  information  is  filed  by  any 

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person  other  than  the  state's  attorney,  one  of 
the  judges  shall  examine  the  same  and  may  ex- 
amine the  person  presenting  it  and  require 
other  evidence  and  satisfy  himself  that  there 
is  probable  cause  for  filing  the  same  and  so 
endorse  the  same.  Every  information  shall  set 
forth  the  offense  with  reasonable  certainty,  sub- 
stantially as  required  in  an  indictment,  and 
the  proceedings  thereon  shall  be  the  same,  as 
near  as  may  be,  as  upon  an  indictment  in  the 
criminal  court  of  Cook  county,  excepting  as  is 
by  this  act  otherwise  provided.  Any  person  com- 
mitted for  a  supposed  criminal  offense  and  not 
admitted  to  bail  and  not  tried  within  four 
months  after  the  date  of  arrest,  shall  be  set  at 
liberty  by  the  court,  unless  the  delay  shall  hap- 
pen on  the  application  of  the  prisoner,  or  unless 
the  court  is  satisfied  that  due  exertion  has  been 
made  to  procure  the  evidence  on  the  part  of 
the  people  and  that  there  is  reasonable  ground 
to  believe  that  such  evidence  may  be  procured 
within  the  next  sixty  days,  in  which  case  the 
court  may  continue  the  case  for  such  time  as 
may  be  necessary,  not  exceeding  said  sixty  days; 
provided,  however,  that  if  said  person  be  not 
tried  within  sixty  days,  no  further  continuance 
shall  be  granted  and  said  person  shall  be  set  at 
liberty 

PRACTICE  IN  CASES  OF  FIFTH  CLASS — SUM-  sec.  312. 
MONS  —  WARRANT  —  POLICE  ARRESTING  ON 
VIEW. — The  first  process  shall  be  a  summons. 
If,  however,  the  defendant,  after  being  duly 
served  with  summons,  fails  to  appear  or  enter 
his  appearance,  the  court  may  proceed  as  in 
case  of  default  and  may  issue  a  warrant  for  the 
arrest  of  defendant. 

A  warrant  may  issue  in  the  first  instance  if 
the  facts  constituting  the  offense  also  constitute 
a  violation  of  the  criminal  code,  and  if  some 
person  files  a  complaint  under  oath. 

A  warrant  may  issue  in  the  first  instance  upon 

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the  affidavit  of  any  person  that  an  ordinance 
has  been  violated  and  that  the  person  making 
the  complaint  has  reasonable  grounds  to  be- 
lieve that  the  person  charged  is  guilty  thereof, 
and  will  escape  unless  arrested,  and  stating  the 
facts  upon  which  such  belief  is  based.  The 
judge  must  be  satisfied,  however,  that  the  arrest 
should  be  made. 

Any  police  officer  may  arrest,  on  view,  any 
person  seen  in  the  act  of  violating  within  the 
city  any  ordinance,  whenever  such  violation  is 
made  punishable  by  fine  or  otherwise. 

sec.  si3b.  PRACTICE  IN  MUNICIPAL  COURT    TO    PRE- 

VENT COMMISSION  OF  CRIMES. — The  Munici- 
pal Court  has  jurisdiction  in  proceedings  to  pre- 
vent the  commission  of  crime,  and  the  judges 
may  cause  warrants  to  issue  to  apprehend  the 
persons  complained  of. 

sec.  sisd.  SEARCH  WARRANTS. — The  Municipal  Court 

has  jurisdiction  in  search  warrant  cases.  The 
warrant  shall  direct  proper  officer  to  search,  in 
day  time  or  night  time,  the  house  or  place 
where  stolen  property  or  other  things  are  be- 
lieved to  be  concealed  (which  place  and  prop- 
erty or  things  to  be  searched  for  shall  be  par- 
ticularly designated  and  described  in  the  war- 
rant) and  to  bring  such  stolen  property  and 
the  person  in  whose  possession  it  is  found  be- 
fore the  Municipal  Court. 

Sec.  320.  COSTS    IN    CRIMINAL    AND    QUASI    CRIMINAL 

CASES. — The  costs  in  criminal  cases  and  in  quasi 
criminal  cases  in  the  Municipal  Court,  insti- 
tuted in  the  name  of  the  people,  and  in  proceed- 
ings for  the  prevention  of  the  commission  of 
crimes,  proceedings  for  the  arrest,  examination, 
commitment  and  bail  of  persons  charged  with 
criminal  offenses,  proceedings  pertaining  to 
searches  and  seizures  by  search  warrants,  and 
in  bastardy  cases,  shall  be  as  follows: 

First.     The   clerk's   fee,    other   than    furnish- 

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ing  transcripts  of  record,  $6  in  all  cases  other 
than  proceedings  for  the  arrest,  examination, 
commitment  and  bail  of  persons  charged  with 
criminal  offenses,  in  which  cases  the  fee  shall 
be  $15. 

Second.  The  bailiff's  fee  shall  be  the  same 
as  that  charged  by  the  sheriff  for  similar  serv- 
ice, except  there  shall  be  no  charge  for  mileage. 
Some  of  the  charges  by  the  sheriff  are,  serving 
summons  on  each  defendant,  $i ;  serving  a 
subpoena  on  each  witness,  $i ;  executing  each 
capias,  $2;  returning  each  writ  of  process,  5Oc; 
committing  to  or  discharging  each  prisoner  from 
jail,  5oc. 

Fourth.  The  fees  and  mileage  of  witnesses 
shall  be  the  same  as  those  allowed  by  law  from 
time  to  time  to  witnesses  in  the  criminal  court 
of  Cook  county. 

No  advance  costs  shall  be  required  in  any 
criminal  or  quasi  criminal  case,  but  in  case  of 
final  judgment,  all  of  the  costs  may,  in  the  dis- 
cretion of  the  court,  be  awarded  against  the  de- 
fendant and  collected  by  execution  or  otherwise, 
as  the  court  may  direct. 

In  bastardy  cases,  should  there  be  a  judgment 
against  the  defendant,  the  costs  shall  be  taxed 
against  him,  but  in  case  of  his  acquittal  the 
costt  may  be  taxed  against  the  complaining 
witness;  provided,  that,  in  taxing  costs  in  any 
criminal  or  quasi  criminal  case,  no  fee  for  the 
issuance  of  a  warrant  shall  be  included. 

COSTS  IN  CITY  CASES. — Costs  in  quasi  crim-  sec.  321. 
inal  cases  in  the  Municipal  Court,  instituted  in 
the   name  of  the  city  of  Chicago,   shall   be   as 
follows : 

First.  The  clerk's  fee  shall  be  $6,  provided, 
however,  that  the  court  may,  in  its  discretion, 
remit  the  costs. 

Second.  Bailiff's  fees  are  the  same  as  those 
indicated  in  section  320. 

No  advance  costs  shall  be  required. 

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NAME— HOW  TO  CHANGE. 

R.  s.(  ch.  96,         NAME — CHANGE  OF,   FOR  INFANT. — When- 
Iec- 1-  ever  an  infant  has  resided  in  the  family  of  any 

person  for  three  years  and  has  been  known  as 
an  adopted  child  in  such  family,  the  person  hav- 
ing such  infant  in  his  family  may  file  a  petition 
in  the  circuit  court  of  the  county,  wherein  he 
resides,  asking  that  the  name  be  changed.  If 
there  appears  no  reason  why  the  petition  should 
not  be  granted,  the  court  may  direct  that  the 
name  be  changed. 

OBSCENE    LITERATURE    AND     IM- 
MORAL EXHIBITIONS. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,         CIRCULATING  OBSCENE  BOOKS,  ETC. — Who- 

sec.  223.  ,     .  ,       ,  ,         .  ,  . 

ever   brings,  or  causes  to  be  brought,   into  this 

state  for  sale  or  exhibition,  or  shall  sell  or  offer 
to  sell,  or  shall  give  away,  or  have  in  his  pos- 
session, any  obscene  or  indecent  book,  pamphlet, 
paper,  drawing,  lithograph,  engraving,  photo- 
graph, etc.,  instrument  of  indecent  or  immoral 
use,  or  shall  advertise  the  same  for  sale,  in  any 
way  whatever,  or  shall  give  any  information  as 
to  how,  where,  or  of  whom  said  indecent  and 
obscene  articles  hereinbefore  mentioned  can  be 
purchased  or  obtained,  or  shall  manufacture  such 
articles,  shall  be  confined  in  the  county  jail  not 
more  than  six  months,  or  fined  not  less  than 
$100  nor  more  than  $1,000  for  each  offense. 
One-half  of  the  fine  goes  to  the  informer. 

sec.  224.  DEPOSITING  WITH  COMMON  CARRIER. — Any- 

one sending  through  the  post  office,  or  by  an 
express  company,  or  in  any  other  manner,  any 
of  the  obscene  and  indecent  articles  mentioned 
in  the  preceding  section,  or  anyone  advertising 
through  the  mail,  express  companies  or  other- 
wise, the  foregoing  articles  or  things,  shall  be 
subject  to  the  fines  mentioned  in  the  preceding 
section. 

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IMPURE    LITERATURE,    RELATING    TO    Dis-  ^  Mj4^« 
EASES. — It  is  unlawful  to  sell  or  offer  to  sell, 
give  away,  or  distribute,  literature  of  any  kind 
relating  to  venereal  diseases,  upon  the  street  or 
sidewalk  or  public  property  of  the  city. 

INDECENT  LITERATURE — IMMORAL  EXHIBI-  sec.  1464. 
TIONS. — It  is  unlawful  to  exhibit,  sell  or  cir- 
culate indecent  literature  or  pictures  of  any  kind, 
or  to  exhibit  or  perform  any  indecent,  immoral 
or  lewd  play  or  representation.  Fine  of  from 
$2O  to  $100. 

INDECENT  EXPOSURE. — An  indecent  exposure  sec.  1455. 
of  any  kind  in  a  public  place  is  punishable  by 
fine  of  $20  to  $100. 

INDECENT,  LEWD  AND  FILTHY  ACTS. — Any-  sec.  i486, 
one  committing  indecent,  lewd  or  filthy  acts  in 
any  place,   or   using   lewd   or   filthy  words,   or 
threatening  or  abusive  language,  shall  be  subject 
to  a  fine  of  $5  to  $100. 

PARKS  AND  PLAYGROUNDS. 

PARKS,   PUBLIC   PLAYGROUNDS  AND   BATH-  R-  M.  c., 
ING   BEACHES. — Section   establishes  the  Bureau  sec^issi. 
of     Parks,     Public    Playgrounds    and    Bathing 
Beaches,  which  shall  embrace  the  superintendent 
of  city  parks,  the  superintendent  of  public  play- 
grounds and  bathing  beaches  and  others.     The 
bureau  shall  be  under  supervision  of  the  Special 
Park  Commission. 

SUPERINTENDENT  AND  SECRETARY. — Sections  Sees, 
create  the  offices  of  superintendent  of  city  parks,   1 
superintendent  of  public  playgrounds  and  bath- 
ing beaches,   and   secretary  of    the    bureau    of 
parks. 

INDECENT  WORDS. — No  threatening,  abusive,   sec.  1564. 
insulting  or  indecent  language  shall  be  allowed 
in    the    parks,    public    playgrounds     or     bathing 
beaches.    No  conduct  shall  be  permitted  whereby 
a  breach  of  the  peace  may  be  occasioned.   No  per- 

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son  shall  commit  any  obscene  or  indecent  act 
within  the  parks. 

PAUPERS. 

^  syju  PAUPERS — WHO  LIABLE  TO  SUPPORT. — Ev- 

ch.  10T.  ,         i     11    i 

sec.  i.  ery  poor  person  who  shall  be  unable  to  earn  a 

livelihood  because  of  any  bodily  infirmity, 
idiocy,  lunacy,  or  other  unavoidable  cause,  shall 
be  supported  by  the  father,  grandfather,  mother, 
grandmother,  children,  grandchildren,  brothers 
or  sisters  of  such  poor  person,  if  they  or  either 
of  them  be  of  sufficient  ability;  provided,  that 
when  persons  become  paupers  through  intem- 
perance or  other  bad  conduct,  they  shall  not  be 
entitled  to  support  from  any  other  relation  ex- 
cept parent  or  child. 

sec.  2.  WHO   FIRST   CALLED   UPON. — The  children 

shall  first  be  called  upon  to  support  such  poor 
person,  if  of  sufficient  ability.  Next  in  order 
the  parents,  brothers,  sisters,  grandchildren,  or 
grandparents,  if  they,  in  the  order  named,  be  of 
sufficient  ability. 

Proceedings    under    this    act    in    this    county 
are  conducted  by  the  County  Attorney. 

sec.  43.  CHILDREN    ON    POOR    FARMS  —  HOME    FOR 

SUCH  CHILDREN. — The  county  judge  may  re- 
lease from  the  custody  of  the  keepers  of  poor 
farms  all  children  confined  therein  under  the  age 
of  14  years,  who  have  no  parents  or  legal  guar- 
dians living,  if  the  judge  can,  without  expense 
to  the  county,  through  the  agency  of  any  person 
or  charitable  society,  secure  a  good  home  for 
such  child;  it  is  the  duty  of  said  judge  to  enter 
into  a  contract  on  behalf  of  such  children  with 
the  person  who  agrees  to  take  such  children, 
which  contract  shall  provide  that  such  child  or 
children  shall  be  clothed,  maintained  and 
schooled  in  the  common  schools,  until  the  male 
children  are  21  years  old,  and  the  female  chil- 
dren are  18  years  old. 

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COSTS — POOR  PERSONS. — The  court  may  per-  R.  s..  ch.  33, 
mit  a  poor  person,  who  is  unable  to  prosecute  *ec'  5' 
his  suit  and  pay  the  costs  and  expenses  thereof, 
to  commence  and  prosecute  his  action  as  a  poor 
person.     The  court  may  assign  counsel  for  such 
person,  who,  as  well  as  all  the  other  officers  of  the 
court,  shall  perform  their  duties  without  any  fees. 
If  there  is  judgment  for  the  plaintiff,  the  costs 
shall  be  collected  for  the  use  of  such  officers. 

PAWNBROKERS  AND  SOCIETIES. 

PAWNBROKERS — PLEDGE  FROM  MINOR. — No  R.  M.  c.. 
pawnbroker  shall  receive  in  pledge  any  property  sec- 1584' 
of  any  kind  from  a  minor,  or  which  is  claimed 
by  a  minor,  or  in  the  possession  of  a  minor,  for 
money  loaned. 

PAWN      SOCIETIES  —  COMPENSATION      FOR  R.  s.,  ch.  32, 
MONEY  ADVANCED. — Pawn  societies  may  charge  sec- 18°- 
not  to  exceed    I    per  cent  per    month    to    any 
pawner  or  pledger,  as  compensation  for  money 
advanced,   and   not  to  exceed   ^2    per  cent  per 
month,  additional   for  storage  and   insurance. 

PROPERTY  PLEDGED  MAY  BE  SOLD. — If  the  sec.  isi. 
property    pledged    is    not    redeemed    within    the 
time  fir*d  upon,  it  may  be  sold  at  public  auction. 

PEDDLERS. 

DEFINITION    OF     PEDDLERS. — Every    person  R  M  c 
who  shall  sell  or  offer  to  sell,  barter,   etc.,  at  sec- 169°- 
retail,  any  goods,  fruits,  merchandise,  etc.,  trav- 
eling from  place  to  place  along  the  streets  of 
the  city,  or  who  shall  deliver  such  goods  from 
any  kind  of  vehicle,  shall  be  deemed  a  peddler 
and   such   person   shall   secure   a   license    before 
engaging  in  such  business. 

Penalty  for  violation  of  section:  fine  of  $20 
to  $50. 

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PERJURY. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,  PERJURY  —  PUNISHMENT.  —  Every  person 
having  taken  a  lawful  oath,  or  made  affirma- 
tion in  any  judicial  proceeding,  or  in  any  other 
matter  where,  by  law,  an  oath  is  required,  who 
shall  swear  wilfully,  corruptly  or  falsely,  in  a 
matter  material  to  the  issue  or  point  in  ques- 
tion, or  shall  suborn  any  other  person  to  swear 
as  aforesaid,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  perjury 
or  subornation  of  perjury  and  be  imprisoned 
in  the  penitentiary  not  less  than  one,  nor  more 
than  fourteen  years. 

Endeavoring  to  incite  perjury  is  also  a  crime. 

PROSECUTING  ATTORNEY. 

Counc.  Pro-  DEPARTMENT     OF     LAW PROSECUTING      AT- 

C90^ingi5f8°6r  TORNEY- — There  is  hereby  established  an  exec- 
utive department  of  the  municipal  government, 
to  be  known  as  the  Department  of  Law,  which 
shall  embrace  the  Corporation  Counsel  and  as- 
sistants; one  of  the  assistants  shall  be  known 
as  the  City  Attorney  and  the  other  as  Prosecut- 
ing Attorney. 

The  Prosecuting  Attorney  shall  be  charged 
with  the  prosecution  of  all  actions  for  violation 
of  the  ordinances  of  the  city.  He  shall  insti- 
tute an  action  in  every  case  where  there  has 
been  a  violation  of  an  ordinance,  when  instructed 
so  to  do  by  the  Corporation  Counsel,  or  by  the 
chief  officer  of  any  department,  or  upon  com- 
plaint of  any  other  person  when,  in  the  judg- 
ment of  the  Corporation  Counsel,  the  public  in- 
terest requires  that  the  same  shall  be  prosecuted. 

PROSTITUTION. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38.  DISORDERLY  HOUSE — ILL  FAME. — (a)  Per- 
sons keeping  houses  of  ill  fame  for  the  prac- 
tice of  prostitution  or  lewdness;  (b)  persons 
patronizing  such  places;  (c)  persons  letting 

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houses  or  rooms  for  such  purposes;  (d)  persons 
keeping  common,  ill-governed  and  disorderly 
houses,  to  the  encouragement  of  gaming,  drink- 
ing, fornication,  or  other  misbehavior,  shall  be 
fined  not  exceeding  $200.  Whenever  any  lessee 
shall  be  convicted  as  above,  the  lease  to  any 
such  premises  shall,  at  the  option  of  the  lessor, 
become  void.  Anyone  leasing  premises  for  any 
of  the  above  purposes,  or  anyone  who  knowingly 
permits  premises  to  be  used  for  such  purposes, 
shall  be  fined  not  exceeding  $200. 

KEEPING  BOATS,  ETC.,  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  sec.  5?a. 
PROSTITUTION. — Keeping  boats  or  water  craft 
for  the  purposes  of  prostitution  in  any  navigable 
water  in  this  state  is  a  felony;  penalty,  confine- 
ment in  penitentiary  for  not  less  than  one  nor 
more  than  three  years,  and  a  fine  of  not  exceed- 
ing $1,000. 

ENTICING  FEMALE  TO  ENTER  HOUSE  OF  sec.  5?b. 
PROSTITUTION,  ETC. — Anyone  who,  by  false 
pretenses,  entices  any  unmarried  female  of  chaste 
life  and  conversation  in  this  state,  to  enter  a 
house  of  prostitution  or  any  dance  house,  garden 
or  premises  where  prostitution,  fornication  or 
concubinage  is  practiced  or  allowed,  or  shall  in- 
duce any  such  female  to  leave  this  state  for  any 
other  state  or  territory  for  the  purposes  of  pros- 
titution, etc.,  or  whoever  aids  in  committing 
such  offenses,  shall,  on  conviction,  be  imprisoned 
in  the  penitentiary  not  less  than  one,  nor  more 
than  four  years. 

UNLAWFULLY  DETAINING  FEMALE  IN  Sec.  s?c. 
HOUSE  OF  PROSTITUTION,  ETC. — Whoever  shall 
unlawfully  detain  any  female  by  force,  false  pre- 
tense or  intimidation,  in  any  room,  etc.,  against 
the  will  of  such  female,  for  purposes  of  prostitu- 
tion, or  with  intent  to  cause  her  to  become  a 
prostitute,  and  become  guilty  of  fornication  or 
concubinage  therein,  or  shall  by  force  or  other- 
wise prevent  any  female  detained  as  aforesaid 

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from  leaving  such  room,  or  who  assists  by  force 
or  otherwise,  in  keeping  any  female  against  her 
will,  for  aforesaid  purposes,  shall,  on  conviction, 
be  imprisoned  in  the  penitentiary  not  less  than 
one,  nor  more  than  ten  years. 

sec.  5?d.  PENALTY  FOR  ALLOWING  FEMALE  UNDER  18 

TO  LIVE  IN  HOUSE. — Whoever  permits  any  un- 
married female  under  18  years  of  age  to  live, 
board,  stop  or  room  in  a  house  where  prostitu- 
tion, etc.,  is  permitted  shall  be  imprisoned  in 
the  penitentiary  not  less  than  one,  nor  more 
than  five  years. 

Sec.  57e.  PENALTY  FOR   ENTICING   TO   COME   INTO  THE 

STATE. — Anyone  enticing  or  procuring  any  un- 
married female  under  age  of  18,  to  come  into 
this  state  for  the  purpose  of  prostitution,  etc., 
shall  be  imprisoned  in  the  penitentiary  not  less 
than  one,  nor  more  than  five  years. 

secMi456  HOUSES  OF  ILL  FAME. — Houses  of  ill  fame 

or  assignation  are  forbidden.  Penalty:  fine 
of  not  more  than  $200  for  every  24  hours  such 
place  in  maintained. 

Patronizing,  frequenting,  or  being  found  in 
such  place  is  unlawful.  It  is  unlawful  to  be  an 
inmate  of  any  such  place.  Penalty:  fine  of  not 
more  than  $200. 

Houses  of  ill  fame  or  assignation  are  hereby 
declared  to  be  nuisances. 

sec.  1459.  NIGHT  WALKERS. — All  persons  of  evil  fame 

or  report,  plying  their  vocations  upon  the  street, 
are  hereby  declared  to  be  common  nuisances,  and 
shall  be  fined  not  more  than  $100  for  each  of- 
fense. 

R.  M.  c..  ILL-GOVERNED  HOUSES. — Every  common,  ill- 

governed  or  disorderly  house  or  room  kept  for 
the  encouragement  of  idleness,  gaming,  drinking, 
fornication,  etc.,  is  a  public  nuisance.  The 
keeper  and  all  persons  patronizing  or  frequenting 
the  same  shall  be  fined  not  more  than  $200. 


HOUSES  OF  ILL  FAME — LEASING. — Any  per-  counc.  Pro- 

,       .  ,  ,  .  t         ceedings  for 

son  leasing  to  another  any  house,  room  or  other  1910i  p.  3111. 

premises  for  any  of  the  purposes  set  forth  in 
section  1456,  or  knowingly  permitting  the  same 
to  be  used  or  occupied  for  such  purposes,  shall 
be  fined  not  exceeding  $200. 

HOTELS — USE  FOR  IMMORAL  PURPOSES  PRO-  sup.  in  to 
HIBITED. — No   person   keeping  or  conducting   a  p*'296.  " 
hotel    shall  permit  the  same  to  be  used  or  occu- 
pied by  persons  for  immoral  purposes. 

Penalty  for  violating  the  above:  fine  of  from 
$10  to  $200.  In  addition  the  license  may  be 
revoked. 

PANDERING — DETENTION  OF  FEMALES. —  session 
That  whoever  shall  by  any  means  detain  against  p.  179! 
her  will  or  restrain  any  female  person  in  a  house 
of  prostitution,  etc.,  or  whoever  shall  attempt 
to,  for  the  purpose  of  compelling  such  female 
person  to  pay  or  cancel  any  debt  or  obligation 
incurred  by  her,  shall,  upon  conviction  for  the 
first  offense,  be  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  or 
house  of  correction  from  six  months  to  one  year, 
and  fined  not  less  than  $300,  and  not  to  exceed 
$1,000;  for  subsequent  offense,  one  to  five  years 
in  penitentiary. 

PANDERING. — Any  person  who  shall  procure  p.  iso. 
a  femal ;  inmate  for  a  house  of  prostitution,  or 
who,  by  threats,  etc.,  shall  cause  a  female  per- 
son to  become  such  an  inmate,  or  shall  procure 
a  place  as  inmate  in  such  house  for  such  per- 
son, or  any  person  who,  by  threats  or  otherwise, 
shall  cause  any  such  inmate  to  remain  in  a  house 
of  prostitution  as  such  inmate,  or  any  person 
who  procures  any  female  person  to  come  into 
this  state  or  leave  it  for  the  purpose  of  prostitu- 
tion, shall  be  guilty  of  pandering.  Penalty: 
first  offense,  six  months  to  one  year  in  county 
jail  or  house  of  correction  and  a  fine  of  $300 
to  $1,000;  subsequent  offense,  imprisonment  in 
penitentiary  from  one  to  ten  years. 

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PUBLICATIONS— CRIMINAL     NEWS. 

SALE  OF  CERTAIN  PUBLICATIONS  TO  MINORS 
PROHIBITED. — It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  per- 
son to  sell,  lend,  give  away,  etc.,  to  any  minor 
child,  literature  of  any  sort  devoted  to  the  pub- 
lication of  criminal  news,  police  reports,  accounts 
of  criminal  deeds,  pictures  and  stories  of  deeds 
of  bloodshed,  lust  or  crime. 

It  shall  be  unlawful  to  exhibit  in  the  view 
of  any  minor  child  any  paper  or  publication 
mentioned  in  this  section. 

It  shall  be  unlawful  to  hire,  use  or  employ 
any  minor  child  to  sell  or  give  away  any  paper 
or  literature  described  above.  It  is  also  un- 
lawful for  one  having  the  custody  of  a  minor 
child  to  permit  such  child  to  sell  or  in  any  man- 
ner distribute  such  literature  described  as  above. 

PUNISHMENT     OF     OFFENDERS 
UNDER  18. 

PUNISHMENT  OF  OFFENDERS  UNDER  18. — 
Persons  under  18  years  of  age  shall  not  be  pun- 
ished by  imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary  except 
for  murder,  manslaughter,  rape,  robbery,  burg- 
lary or  arson.  In  all  other  cases  persons  be- 
tween 1 6  and  18  years  of  age  shall  be  imprisoned 
in  the  county  jail  for  a  term  not  exceeding  18 
months. 

RAPE. 

RAPE — PUNISHMENT. — Rape  is  the  carnal 
knowledge  of  a  female  forcibly  and  against  her 
will.  Every  male  person  of  the  age  of  17  years 
and  upwards,  who  shall  have  carnal  knowledge 
of  a  female  under  16  years  of  age,  not  his  wife, 
with  or  without  her  consent,  is  guilty  of  rape. 
A  legal  marriage  to  each  other,  however,  before 
conviction,  shall  abate  all  legal  proceedings. 
Males  of  1 6  years  of  age  and  upwards,  having 
carnal  knowledge  of  females,  forcibly  and 

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against  their  wills,  are  guilty  of  rape.  Punish- 
ment: imprisonment  in  the  penitentiary  for 
not  less  than  one  year  and  it  may  extend  to  life. 
It  shall  not  be  necessary  to  prove  emission  to 
convict  of  rape. 

SCHOOLS. 

LENGTH  OF  TIME  CHILDREN  MUST  BE  SENT  R.  s.,  ch.  122. 
TO  SCHOOL. — Every  person  having  control  of  sec- 313 
any  child  between  7  and  16  years  of  age  shall 
cause  such  child  to  attend  public  or  private 
school  the  entire  time  during  which  school  is 
in  session,  which  period  shall  be  not  less  than 
I IO  days  of  actual  teaching;  provided,  this  act 
shall  not  apply  where  the  child  is  being  in- 
structed by  a  person  competent  to  give  instruc- 
tion, or  where  its  physical  or  mental  condition 
renders  its  attendance  impractical  or  inexpedient, 
or  where  the  child  is  excused  for  temporary 
absence  for  cause  by  the  principal  or  teacher,  or 
where  the  child  is  over  14  years  of  age  and 
lawfully  employed. 

PENALTY. — Anyone  violating  this  act  shall 
forfeit  to  the  use  of  the  public  school  not  less 
than  $5  nor  more  than  $20  for  each  offense. 

BOARD  TO  APPOINT  TRUANT  OFFICERS —  sec.  sis. 
DUTIES. — The  Board  of  Education  may  appoint 
truant  officers,  who  shall  report  to  said  Board 
all  violations  of  this  act,  and  shall  prosecute  all 
persons  who  appear  to  be  guilty  of  such  viola- 
tions. They  shall  arrest  any  child  of  school  age 
that  habitually  haunts  public  places  and  has  no 
lawful  occupation,  and  any  truant  child  who 
absents  himself  or  herself  from  school,  and  shall 
place  him  or  her  in  charge  of  the  teacher  having 
charge  of  any  school  which  said  child  may  at- 
tend, and  which  school  shall  be  designated  to  said 
officer  by  the  parent  or  guardian  of  said  child. 
In  case  such  parent  or  guardian  shall  designate 
a  school  without  having  made  arrangements  for 
the  reception  of  the  child,  or  if  he  fails  to  desig- 

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nate  any  school,  then  the  truant  officer  shall  place 
such  child  in  charge  of  the  teacher  of  a  public 
school.  Such  teacher  shall  properly  instruct  such 
child. 

sec.  316.  PENALTY  FOR  PERSON  HAVING  CONTROL  OF 

CHILD  MAKING  FALSE  STATEMENTS. — Any 
person  having  control  of  a  child,  who,  with  intent 
to  evade  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  make  a 
false  statement  concerning  the  age  or  employ- 
ment of  such  child,  or  the  time  such  child  has 
attended  school,  shall  forfeit  not  less  than  $3 
nor  more  than  $20  for  the  use  of  the  public 
schools. 

sees.  INDUSTRIAL  SCHOOLS  FOR  GIRLS. — The  sec- 

tion provides  for  homes  and  proper  training 
schools  for  such  girls  as  may  be  committed  to 
their  charge. 

sees.  TRAINING  SCHOOLS  FOR  BOYS. — The    object 

334-350.  of  training  schools  for  boys  shall  be  to  provide 

homes  and  proper  training  schools  for  such  boys 
as  may  be  committed  to  their  charge.  Boys  may 
be  committed  until  they  are  21  years  of  age. 
(See  statutes  for  further  details.) 

Sec.  428.  CLASSES  FOR  THE  DEAF. — This  section  pro- 

vides for  classes  for  the  deaf  in  public  schools. 

sec.  433.  PARENTAL  OR  TRUANT  SCHOOLS. — This  sec- 

tion provides  for  parental  or  truant  schools  for 
the  purpose  of  providing  a  place  of  confine- 
ment, discipline,  instruction  and  maintenance 
of  children  of  compulsory  school  age,  who  may 
be  committed  thereto. 

sec.  437.  WHAT  CHILDREN  RECEIVE. — It  is  the  duty 

of  any  truant  officer,  and  any  reputable  citi- 
zen is  permitted  to  petition  the  County  or  Cir- 
cuit Court,  to  inquire  into  the  case  of  any  child 
of  compulsory  school  age,  who  is  not  attending 
school  or  who  has  been  guilty  of  habitual 
truancy  or  of  persistent  violation  of  the  rules 
of  the  public  school.  Such  petition  shall  state 
names  of  parents  or  guardian,  if  known,  and  shall 

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be  verified  by  oath.  No  child  shall  be  com- 
mitted to  a  parental  or  truant  school  who  has 
ever  been  convicted  of  any  offense  punishable  by 
confinement  in  any  penal  institution. 

The  order  committing  any  child  to  a  truant 
school  shall  provide  that  the  child  be  kept  there 
until  he  or  she  arrive  at  the  age  of  14  years, 
unless  sooner  discharged  in  accordance  with 
law. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  parents  to  provide 
suitable  clothing  for  any  child  while  it  is  con- 
fined to  such  school. 

CHILDREN  RELEASED  ON  PAROLE. — Children  sec.  44*. 
committed  to  such  parental  or  truant  school  may 
be  released  on  parole,  but  while  they  are  on 
parole  they  must  be  under  the  control  of  the 
officers  and  agents  of  such  school.  No  child 
shall  be  released  on  parole  under  four  weeks' 
time  after  commitment,  nor  thereafter  until  the 
superintendent  of  such  school  shall  be  satisfied 
that  such  child,  if  paroled,  will  attend  school 
regularly. 

INCORRIGIBLE  CHILDREN. — Incorrigible    chil-   sec.  4«. 
dren  whose  influence  is  detrimental   to  the  in- 
terests of  the  other  pupils  in  such  school,  may  be 
committed  by  the  Circuit  or  County  Court  to 
some  juvenile  reformatory. 

CLASSES  FOR  CRIPPLED  CHILDREN. — Section  sec.  457. 
enables  Boards  of  Education,  by  proper  proced- 
ure, to  establish  and  maintain  classes  for  the  in- 
struction of  crippled  children  between  6  and  21 
years  of  age.  , 

SEARCH  WARRANTS. 

SEARCH  WARRANTS. — Any  judge  may  issue  R.  s.,  ch.  ss. 
search  warrants,  when  there  is  reasonable  cause, 
in  the  following  cases,  to  wit :  ( I )  to  search 
for,  and  seize  books,  pamphlets,  ballads  and 
printed  papers  or  other  things  containing  ob- 
scene language  or  obscene  pictures,  etc.,  mani- 

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festly  tending  to  corrupt  the  morals  of  youth- 
and  intended  to  be  sold,  loaned,  or  distributed 
or  to  be  introduced  into  any  family,  school  or 
place  of  education;  (2)  to  search  for  and  seize 
lottery  tickets,  etc.;  (3)  to  search  for  and  seize 
gaming  apparatus,  etc. 

SEDUCTION. 

R.  a,  ch.  ss.  SEDUCTION  —  DEFINED. — Whoever  seduces 
and  obtains  carnal  knowledge  of  any  unmarried 
female  under  the  age  of  18  years,  of  previous 
chaste  character,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than 
$1,000  nor  more  than  $5,000,  or  imprisoned  in 
the  county  jail  not  exceeding  one  year,  or  both. 
Subsequent  intermarriage  of  parties  shall  be  a 
bar  to  prosecution.  Cannot  convict  on  unsup- 
ported testimony  of  the  female. 

SOLDIERS'  ORPHANS'  HOME. 

it.  a.,  ch.  23,  SOLDIERS'  ORPHANS'  HOME. — The  soldiers' 
orphans'  home  shall  be  provided  for  the  nurture 
and  intellectual,  moral  and  physical  culture  of 
all  indigent  children  of  old  soldiers.  The  home 
receives  (i)  children  under  5  years  of  age  in 
indigent  circumstances;  (2)  indigent  children 
above  5  and  under  14  years  of  age;  (3)  all 
other  indigent  orphans  up  to  the  age  of  16 
years;  (4)  if  there  is  further  room,  then  any 
dependent  orphan  child  under  the  age  of  8 
years,  who  has  been  a  resident  of  the  state  for 
four  years  or  more.  Boys  shall  be  discharged 
from  the  home  at  16  years  of  age,  but  girls  may 
be  retained  until  they  are  1 8  years  of  age.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  to'  place 
all  children  in  private  homes  whenever  applica- 
tions are  made  by  worthy  and  responsible  peo- 
pie. 

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SUITS  IN  CHANCERY. 

SUITS  IN  CHANCERY  BY  MINORS. — Suits  in  R.  s.,  ch.  22. 
chancery  may  be  commenced  and  prosecuted  by  sec' 
minors  either  by  guardian  or  next  friend. 

GUARDIAN  AD  LITEM. — The  court  may  ap-  sec.  6. 
point  a  guardian  ad  litem  in  any  cause  in  equity 
that  is  pending,  to  represent  any  minor  defend- 
ant. 

TOBACCO. 

SALE  OF  TOBACCO  TO  MINORS. — It  is  unlaw-  R.  s.,  ch.  38, 
ful  to  sell,  buy  for,  or  furnish  any  cigarette  or  sec-  42f> 
tobacco  in  any  of  its  forms,  to  any  minor  under 
1 6  years  of  age,  unless  upon  written  order  of 
parent  or  guardian.      Penalty:  fine  of  $20  for 
each  and  every  offense. 

SALE  OF  TOBACCO  TO  MINORS. — It  is  unlaw-  R.  M.  c., 
ful  to  sell  or  furnish   tobacco  in   any   form   to  sec>  1439- 
minors  under  1 6  years  of  age,  except  upon  the 
written  order  of  the  parent  or  guardian.     Pen- 
alty:   $10  to  5100  fine. 

CIGARETTES. — It  is  unlawful  to  sell  or  give   R.  s.,  ch.  38, 
away  cigarettes  containing  any   substance   dele-   sec-  272L 
terious    to   health.      Fine:   not   exceeding  $100, 
or   imprisonment   in   county   jail    not   exceeding 
thirty  days.     It  is  unlawful  for  persons  between 
che  ages  of  7  and   18  years,  to  smoke  cigarettes 
on  any  public  street,  alley,  park  or  other  lands 
used  for  public  purposes,  or  in  any  public  place 
of  business  or  amusement.     Penalty:    fine  of  not 
more  than  $i  for  each  offense. 

PENALTY  FOR  FURNISHING. — It  is  unlawful  sec.  272k. 
for  any  person  to  furnish  cigarettes  in  any  form 
to  any  such  person,  or  to  permit  any  such  per- 
son to  frequent  his  premises  for  the  purpose  of 
smoking  cigarettes.  Penalty:  first  offense,  fine 
not  exceeding  $50;  additional  offenses,  fine  not 
exceeding  $100,  or  imprisonment  in  county  jail 
not  exceeding  thirty  days. 

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secMio?3  CIGARETTES — SALE  TO  MINORS. — It  shall  be 

unlawful  to  sell  or  offer  to  sell  cigarettes  to 
any  person  under  21  years  of  age.  Penalty:  fine 
of  not  less  than  $25. 

Sec.  1084.  SALE   PROHIBITED  NEAR    SCHOOLHOUSES. — 

Cigarettes,  tobacco,  or  tobacco  products  in  any 
form  shall  not  be  sold  or  given  away  at  any 
place  within  six  hundred  feet  of  any  school- 
house.  Penalty:  fine  of  not  less  than  $25,  nor 
more  than  $100. 

sec.  IDS?.  CIGAR  BUTTS — PARENTS  NOT  TO  PERMIT. — 

Parents  shall  not  permit  children  under  18  years 
of  age  to  gather  or  pick  up  cigars  or  cigarette 
butts  or  stumps. 

VAGABONDS. 

R.  s.,  ch.  38,        VAGABONDS — WHAT  SHALL  CONSTITUTE. — 

sec.  270  All  persons  who  are  idle  and  dissolute  and  who 

go   about   begging.      All    persons   who   use   any 

juggling  or  other  unlawful  plays  or  games 

confidence   men ; common   drunkards ; 

lewd,  wanton  and   lascivious   persons   in   speech 

or    behavior, persons    who    are    habitually 

neglectful  of  their  employment, and  do  not 

lawfully  provide  for  themselves  or  for  the  sup- 
port of  their  families ;  all  persons who 

habitually  misspend  their  time  by  frequenting 
house  of  ill  fame,  gaming  houses  or  tippling 
shops;  all  persons  lodging  in  or  found  in  the 
night  time  in  outhouses,  sheds,  barns,  or  un- 
occupied buildings,  or  lodging  in  the  open  air 
and  not  giving  a  good  account  of  themselves; 

and  all  persons who  are  habitually  found 

prowling  around any  place  of  public  amuse- 
ment, auction  room,  store,  shop  or  crowded 
thoroughfare,  car  or  omnibus,  or  any  public 
gathering  or  assembly,  or  lounging  about  any 
courtroom,  private  dwelling  houses  or  outhouses, 
or  are  found  in  any  house  of  ill  fame,  or  tippling 

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shop,  shall  be  deemed  to  be  and  they  are  declared 
to  be  vagabounds. 

How  PUNISHED. — Such  person  may  be  sen-  Sec- 271- 
tenced  to  hard  labor  on  the  streets,  imprison- 
ment in  jail,  or  to  the  House  of  Correction,  for 
a  term  of  not  less  than  ten  days  and  not  exceed- 
ing ten  months,  or  he  may  be  fined  not  less  than 
$20,  nor  more  than  $100;  in  default  of  pay- 
ment of  fine,  he  may  be  sentenced  at  hard  labor 
in  the  House  of  Correction  or  on  the  streets 
at  the  rate  of  $1.50  per  day,  until  said  fine 
and  costs  shall  have  been  worked  out  or  paid. 

VAGABONDS    AND    VAGRANTS. — This    section  R.  M.  c.. 
is  practically  the  same  as  Section  270,  Ch.  38,   sec' 1476' 
of  Revised  Statutes,  which  see.     Penalty  under 
this  section:  fine  not  to  exceed  $100. 

VOTERS. 

QUALIFICATION   OF  VOTERS. — Every    person  R.  s.(  ch.  46, 
above   the   age   of   21    years,   having   resided   in   sec- 65- 
this  state  one  year,   in  the  county  ninety  days, 
and  in  the  election  district  thirty  days  next  pre- 
ceding any  election,   and  who  shall   be   a   male 
citizen   of   the   United   States,   shall   be   entitled 
to  vote  at  such  election. 

WEAPONS. 

HAVING  IN  POSSESSION  OR  SELLING  DEADLY  R.  s.,  ch.  38, 
WEAPONS. — Anyone    having    in    his    possession,   sec" 54a- 
or  who  shall  sell  or  offer  to  sell,  etc.,  any  slung- 
shot,  knuckles,  or  other  deadly  weapon,  shall  be 
guilty   of   misdemeanor.      Punishment,    not    less 
than  $10,  nor  more  than  $200  fine. 

SELLING  OR  GIVING  DEADLY  WEAPONS  TO  sec.  54;?. 
MINOR. — Whoever,  not  being  the  father,  guar- 
dian or  employer  of  a  minor,  by  himself  or  agent, 
shall  sell,  give,  loan,  hire  or  barter,  or  shall 
offer  to  sell,  etc.,  to  such  minor,  any  pistol,  re- 
volver, derringer,  bowie  knife,  dirk  or  other 

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deadly  weapon  of  like  character,  capable  of  be- 
ing secreted  upon  the  person,  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum 
not  less  than  $25,  nor  more  than  $200. 

sec.  54d.  CARRYING  CONCEALED  WEAPONS. — Carrying 

concealed  weapons  of  the  character  above  speci- 
fied in  the  above  sections,  or  a  razor,  about  the 
person,  or  displaying  or  flourishing  deadly 
weapons,  is  a  misdemeanor.  Fine  of  not  less 
than  $25,  nor  more  than  $200. 

R.  M.  c.,  CONCEALED    WEAPONS — CARRYING. — Carry- 

ing deadly  weapons  concealed  about  the  person 
is  prohibited. 

Such  weapons  may  be  confiscated  and  the  per- 
son carrying  the  same  arrested  without  warrant, 
and  fined  from  $25  to  $2OO. 

SALE  OF  WEAPONS  TO  MINORS  FORBIDDEN. 
— It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  sell,  loan 
or  give  away  any  deadly  weapon  to  any  minor, 
or  to  any  person  domiciled  in  Chicago  and  not 
licensed  in  accordance  with  the  provision  of  the 
ordinance. 


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INDEX 


Abandonment — Of  child  under  one  year 14 

Of  wife  and  children 13 

Abduction— Of  child 16 

Of  female 14 

Abortion — Producing 15 

Accessories — Definition  of 38 

Adoption  15 

Of  child — guardian  to  consent 72 

Adulteration — Of  foods,  candies,  etc 17 

Of  liquors 17 

Adultery  17 

Advertisements,  medical,  prohibited 18 

Obscene  or  immoral  pictures 18 

Advertising  abortifacient  drugs 15 

Age  and  school  certificates 27 

Amusement  places — Dressing  rooms 19 

Amusements — Classification  of 18 

Prohibited  at  bathing  beaches 19 

When  children  forbidden 18 

Antitoxin — Free  treatment 52 

Apprentices  20 

Arbor  and  Bird  Day 20 

Arrest — Who  may,  without  warrant 20 

Special  officer  may 21 

Assignment  of  wages — Juvenile  Court 74 

Associations — Charitable,  incorporated 72 

Attempt  to  commit  offense 38 

Bail — Excessive,   not  to  be  imposed.. 10 

Right    to 11 

Bar    permits — Special 62 

Bastards — Concealing  death  of 23 

Custody    of 22 

Inherit  from  whom 23 

Legitimated    22,  23 

Bastardy 21 

Bathing   beaches — Amusements   prohibited 19 

Billiards — Minors  not  to  play 23 

Bill    of   Rights 10 

Bird  and  Arbor  Day 20 

Births — Physicians  and  midwives  to  report 52 

Boundaries  of  Illinois 10 

Bowling  alleys — Children  not  to  work  in 27 

Buildings — Unsanitary    50,  51 

Bureau  of  Information  and  Publicity 57 

Candy  stores — Liquor  not  to  be  sold 24 

Sale  of  candy  containing  liquor  forbidden 24 

•Child  labor — Age  and  school  certificates 27 

Certain  employment  forbidden 25 

Child  under  fourteen 26 

Child  under  fourteen,  hours  of  work  for 27 

Employments  forbidden  children  under  sixteen.. 30 

Evening  school 29 

Hours  of  labor 29 

Illiteracy  29 

Register  in  establishments 27 

Wall  lists 27 

103 


Children — Abandonment    of 13 

Abandonment  of,  under  one  year 14 

Abduction    of 15 

Adoption  of,  guardian  to  consent 72 

Allowance  to 40 

Births  to  be  reported 52 

Bastard,    custody   of 22 

Cases  transferred  from  Police  to  Juvenile  Court. 70 

Certain    employments    forbidden 25 

Contributing   to   dependency  of,   etc 36 

Counseling,  to  commit  crime 39 

Crimes    against 37 

Cruelty    to    32,  39 

Dependent  and  delinquent,  examination  of 74 

Employed  in  pawnshops 33 

Employment    agencies 43 

Employments  forbidden  under  sixteen 30 

Endangering  life   or  health 26,  33 

Exhibition    of 32 

Incorrigible    97 

In  divorce  suit,  custody  and  support  of 39 

In  jails,  to  be  separated  from  adults 71 

Injuring  health  of 39 

May  nominate  guardian,  when 48 

Not  to  flip  cars 45 

Not  to  play  games  in  saloons 46,  47 

Not  to  work  in  bowling  alleys,  etc 27 

Order  as   to  custody  of 26 

Placing   in   hospitals 69. 

Pledge  to  pawnbrokers   unlawful 89 

Sale  of  explosives  to,  forbidden 44 

School  attendance  of 95 

Selling  deadly  weapons  to 102 

Selling  tobacco   to 99 

Support  of,  Juvenile  Court 73 

Under  eighteen,  punishment  of 94 

Under  twelve,  not  to  go  to  jail 71 

Unlawful  to  buy  junk  from 63 

Visitation     of 75 

When  forbidden  at  theaters 18 

When    forbidden    in    fruit    stores   and    ice    cream 

parlors   45 

When  guardian  may  have  custody  of 48 

When  not  guilty  of  crime 38 

When  habitually   beg 20 

With    inflamed    eyes 51 

Cigarettes— Selling   to   children 99 

Citizens — Privileges     of 10 

Who    are 10 

City  Councils — Powers  of 24 

City  physician  to  examine  children 74 

Cocaine — Sale  forbidden 33,  34 

Commutation   of  sentence 12 

Complaint — Form    of 20 

Confinements — Illegal    79 

Contagious    diseases 51 

Continuances — Grounds   for 35 

Contributing  to  dependency,  etc.,  of  children 36 

Coroner  to  report  deaths 52 

Costs    in    court — Poor  persons 89 

Costs  in  Municipal  Court 84,  85 

Crime    against   nature 37 

Crime — Attempt  to  commit 38 

Counseling   to  commit 39 

When  children  not  guilty  of 38 

Crimes  against  children 37 

Criminal   news — Publication  of 94 

104 


Custody — Of   bastard   child .22 

Of  children  in  divorce  suit. 3d 

Of  children,  order  as  to 26 

Of  child,  when  guardian  may  have 48 

Dances — Admission  of  minors 60 

Deaths — Physicians,    midwives    and    coroners    to   re- 
port    52 

Delinquency  of  children — Contributing  to 36 

Delinquent  child — Definition  of 64 

Delinquent   children — Disposition   of 68 

Dependency  of  children — Contributing  to 36 

Dependent  and  delinquent  children — Examination  of. 74 
Dependent  and  neglected  children — Disposition  of.... 67 

Dependent  child — Definition  of 63 

Detention    home 74 

Diseases — Dangerously    communicable 53 

Disinfection— Gratuitous,    in    counties 53 

Disturbing   the  peace 40 

Dramshop    defined 58 

Dressing  rooms  at  amusement  places 19 

Drugs — Abortifacient,    advertising 15 

Due  process  of  law 10 

Guaranteed    9 

Employment    agencies 41 

Intoxicating  liquors  not  to  be  sold  near 42 

Not  to  send  to  disreputable  places 43 

When  not  to  employ  children 43 

Evening    schools 29 

Evidence — Continuance    for 35 

Of  husband  and  wife 56 

Executor — Minor  may  be 43 

Expenses    of    family 4D 

Explosives — Sale  to  children  forbidden 44 

Extradition    44 

When  possible 9 

Family — Expenses    of 40 

Felony — Definition    of 38 

Female — Abduction    of 14 

Fines — Excessive,  not  to  be  imposed 10 

Fireworks     45 

Flipping   cars  by   children 45 

Foreign    corporations 73 

Fruit    stores — Licensed 45 

When  minors   forbidden   in 4S 

Fugitives  from  justice 12 

Gaming — Penalties  46 

Police    to    suppress 47 

Good  behavior  at  Juvenile  Home 54 

Governor — Power  to  pardon,    etc 12 

Grand  jury — May  be  abolished 11 

Guardian — Nomination  of 4S 

Report    of,    citation 70 

Guardianship  of  institution 67 

Guardian — Testamentary    49 

When  may  have  custody  of  child 48 

Habeas    corpus — Right   to 11,  50 

Habitual  drinkers — Notice  not  to  sell  liquors  to 61 

Hand  organs — Playing  on  street 50 

Health — Boards  of,  in  counties 53 

Department  of 50 

Of  child,  injuring 39 

Home — State,   for  juvenile   offenders 53 

Hospitals — Placing   children  in 69 

105 


Hotels — Us«d  for  immoral  purposes 93 

Household  goods — Mortgage  on 80 

Humane  societies 55 

Husband  and   wife — Evidence 56 

Ice  cream  parlors — Licenses 45 

When   minors  forbidden 46 

Idiocy — Effect  of,   on  trial  for  crime , 39 

Idiot — Counseling  to  commit  crime 39 

111 -fame — Employment     agencies     not     to     send     to 

houses   of 43 

Houses  of 90  et  seq. 

Ill-governed  houses 92 

Ill-governed    places 47 

Illinois — Boundaries  of 10 

Illiteracy  29 

Immoral  exhibitions  and  obscene  literature 86 

Incest  56 

Incorporation  of  charitable  associations 72 

Indictment — Required    when    11 

Industrial  schools  for  girls 96 

Infamous   crime — Prosecuted  by  indictment  only 9 

Information  and  Publicity  Bureau 57 

Insane  defined ,  .77 

Insanity — Effect  of,  on  trial  for  crime 39 

Proceedings  as   to 78 

Interest — Rates   of 58 

Intoxicating  liquors — -Dances,  admission  of  minors... 60 

Dramshop    defined 58 

Forbidden  at  public  entertainments 18 

Liability  for   support 59 

Materials  impregnated  with 62 

Minors    intoxicated 61 

Notice  not  to  sell  habitual  drinkers 61 

Not   to  be  sold  in  candy  stores 24 

Not  to  be  sold  near  employment  agencies 42 

Nuisances     59 

Sample   bottles  of,  distributed 62 

Sale  of  candy  containing,  forbidden 24 

Selling  or  giving  to  minors 59 

Selling  without  license 58 

Special   bar  permits 62 

Unlawful  to  deliver  to  minors 61 

Wine  rooms  prohibited 61 

Jeopardy  11 

No  one  to  be  placed  in,  twice  for  same  offense...  9 

Junk  and  second-hand  stores 63 

Juvenile    Court 63 

Juvenile   offenders — Home  for 53 

Kidnaping    76 

Legislature — Attendance  on,  ground  for  continuance. 35 

Library — Chicago    Public 76 

Licenses — To  be  posted 76 

Limitations — Statutes  of 76 

Lodging  houses 77 

Lottery  prohibited 48 

Lunatics    77 

Marriage  of  parents  of  bastard 22 

Marriages     78 

Maternity  hospitals 79 

Midwives  to  report  births  and  deaths 52 

Mines — Work  of  boys  and  girls  in 79 

106 


Minors — May   be  executors r 48 

Admission  of,  to  dances 60 

How  parties  in  chancery  suits 99 

Intoxication  of 61 

Not  to  play  billiards  and  pool 23 

Selling  intoxicating  liquors  to 59 

Unlawful  to  deliver  liquors  to 61 

\VTho  are 48 

Misdemeanor — Definition    of 38 

Morphine — Sale  forbidden 34 

Mortgage  on  household  goods 80 

Moving   picture   operators 82 

Moving  picture  theaters 80 

Municipal    Court — Jurisdiction 82 

Name — How  to  change 86 

Name  of  defendant — When  unknown 21 

Naturalization    12 

Nature — Crime  against 37 

Neglected  child— Definition  of 63 

Disposition  of 67 

Night    walkers 92 

Obscene  literature  and  immoral  exhibitions 86 

Obscene   pictures,   advertisements 18 

Offense — Attempt  to  commit 38 

Definition   of 38 

Opium  smoking  rooms  forbidden 34 

Pandering  93 

Pardons 12 

Parks  and  playgrounds 87 

Paupers — Costs  in  court 89 

Proceedings  as  to 88 

Pawnbrokers — Pledge  from  minors 89 

Pawnshops — Children  employed 33 

Pawn  societies,  compensation 89 

Peace — Disturbing  40 

Peddlers — Definition  of  89 

Penalties  to  be  proportioned 11 

Perjury — Definition  of  and  punishment 90 

Physicians  to  report  births  and  deaths 52 

Pictures — Immoral,  advertisements  of 18 

Policemen — Special,  humane  societies 55 

Police  to  suppress  gambling 47 

Policy  shops  prohibited 48 

Playgrounds  and  parks 87 

Pool — Minors  not  to  play 23 

Poor  farms — Children  on 88 

Poor  persons — Costs  in  court 89 

Prosecuting  attorney — Duties 90 

Prostitution — Houses  of 90  et  seq. 

Psychopathic  institute 75 

Public  administrator 49 

Publication  of  criminal  news 94 

Punishment — Cruel  or  unusual,  not  to  be  inflicted... 10 

Of  offenders  under  eighteen 94 

Quarantine — Power  of  health  boards 53 

Rape     94 

Rates     of    interest 58 

Religious  preferences 73 

Religious  worship — Free,  exercise  of 10 

Reprieves   12 

Right— Of  jury  trial 11 

To  assemble 11 

To    bail 11 

107 


Right- 
To  defend  in  person  and  by  counsel .11 

To  demand  cause  of  accusation 11 

To  habeas   corpus 11 

To  meet   witnesses 11 

To   speak  freely 11 

To  speedy  public  trial 11 

Saloons — Children  not  to  play  games  in 46,  47 

Schools — Age  and  period  of  attendance 95 

Children  released  on  parole 97 

Classes  for  crippled  children 97 

Incorrigible   children 97 

Parental  or   truant  schools 96 

Truant  officers 95 

Search  warrants    84,97 

Second-hand  stores 63 

Seduction  defined 98 

Seizures — Unreasonable,   security   against 9 

Slot  machines — Confiscation  of 48 

Prohibited    47 

Soldiers'   Orphans'   Home 98 

Special  officer — May  arrest 21 

Special   policemen — Humane   societies 55 

State  Commissioners  of  Public  Charities 71 

State  Home  for  Juvenile  Offenders 53 

Summons — When  to  issue 83 

Support — Of  child  in  Juvenile  Court 73 

Of  children  in  divorce  suit 39 

Of  wife  and  children 13 

Supreme  law  of  the  land — What  constitutes 9 

Testamentary    guardian 49 

Theaters— When  children   forbidden 18 

Tobacco — Selling  to  minors 99 

Training   schools    for   boys 96 

Trial— Speedy  public,  right  to 11 

Unsanitary    buildings 50,  51 

Vaccination — Gratuitous,  in  counties 53 

Vagabonds   100 

Visitation   of   children 75 

Voters — Qualification    of 101 

Wall  lists 27 

Wages — Assignment   of,  Juvenile  Court 74 

Warrant — When   it  may   issue 21,  83 

Weapons — Deadly,     etc 101 

Selling  to  minors 102 

Wife — Abandonment  of 13 

Wife   and  husband — Evidence 56 

Wine  rooms  prohibited 61 

Witness — Not   compelled  to  be,   against   one's   self..  9 
Work   house  provided   for 21 


108 


